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A rally Sunday in Chicago was part of a larger national effort by many of the same groups that amplified the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd's killing five years ago.
Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer and dozens gathered at Federal ...
Jussie Smollett resolved his civil dispute with Chicago and donated $10,000 to a police violence support group following his 2024 exoneration.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson accused the Trump administration of intimidating his city after the DOJ launched an ...
Jussie Smollett will donate $50,000 to a charity to settle his lawsuit with Chicago stemming from allegations that he staged ...
Consent decrees have had mixed results. In Los Angeles, which exited its 12-year agreement in 2013, the police department ...
A recent workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlighted the central role prosecutors ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joins The Weekend to discuss Trump’s Justice Department using legal retribution to open up an ...
Federal prosecutors should seek the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, accused of a calculated double murder in D.C., with substantial forensic and video evidence, writes former prosecutor.
The practice of powerful officials hiring from within their own ethnic group is a tried-and-true tradition in the ...
Hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett went on a bizarre Instagram rant in which he repeated his widely-debunked claim that he was ...
Jussie Smollett settled a civil lawsuit denying any wrongdoing and donated $60K to Chicago charities while maintaining his ...