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An Alabama man accused of attempting to hire an undercover FBI agent who he thought was a member of the KKK was sentenced to six years in prison. Allen Wayne Morgan pleaded guilty to trying to hire the agent to kill his black neighbor. 

North Carolina’s Supreme Court heard arguments about whether it should reinstate death sentences for four inmates whose punishments were reduced. The appeal seeks to challenge the ruling of a law that allowed certain criminal defendants to challenge their sentences on the grounds of racial bias in their prosecutions. 

  A Los Angeles judge has once again refused to release former NFL safety Darren Sharper from jail. Sharper is awaiting trial in Los Angeles after pleading not guilty to charges that he raped and drugged two women last year. 

The family of a North Chicago man who was beat to death by a policeman was told the officer was fired for the incident. But that officer was actually let go for other reasons –like living outside of the city’s limits. 

Authorities say a mentally ill former marine “baked to death” in a Rikers Island jail cell. Jerome Murdough was arrested for trespassing after seeking warm shelter in an enclosed stairwell on the roof of a Harlem public housing project. 

  A group of black firefighters that sued New York City for discrimination has been awarded millions for the incidents. The ruling means that minority fire department applicants will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million. 

Charges against a Florida man who shot a deputy last year could be dismissed if he is granted immunity. Keenan Finkelstein, 24, claimed the Stand Your Ground defense for shooting Sgt. Shedrick Johnson in the leg outside a home in Scenic Hills on March 20. He is charged with aggravated battery against an officer.

The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. urged her brothers to reconsider their plan to sell the civil rights icon’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize. King’s estate is governed by his two sons, Martin Luther King III and Dexter King. Lawyers for the estate filed court papers Jan. 31 asking a judge to order Rev. […]

    A former leader of the Black Panther party has been released after serving 44 years behind bars. Marshall “Eddie” Conway, 67, was freed Tuesday after challenging his conviction for a shooting that killed Officer Donald Sager and injured another in 1970. 

A South Florida man who was ripped off by his lawyer has been rewarded with his home. Patrick Coulton was arrested on drug conspiracy charges in 2008. He hired attorneys Peter Mayas and Emmanuel Roy to represent him. 

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have allowed businesses to deny service to members of the LGBT community. The controversial Senate Bill 1062, gave owners to right to deny clients based on their religious beliefs that being gay was immoral.

According to a Dartmouth University study, North Carolina’s recent changes to the state’s voting laws will disproportionately affect black voters. North Carolina was once included in the Voting Rights Act’s requirement that states and other jurisdictions with a history of racism in voting submit changes to their voting laws to the Justice Department for approval. […]