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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. […]

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a road map to end New York City’s appeal of a judge’s stop-and-frisk ruling. De Blasio’s announcement means that the city believes what Michael Bloomberg did not— that the previous administration abused stop-and-frisk policing.  The practice has long been criticized for racially profiling minorities. 

A photograph of Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova has sparked international outrage with critics referring to the imagery as racist. The photo, accompanied by an interview of the heiress sitting on a chair, comprised of a cushion…and a bound black woman. 

Earlier this week a federal judge ruled that Arkansas can stop making payments on one of the nation’s most historic desegregation efforts. While the ruling no longer holds the state liable in a financial sense, U.S. District Judge Price Marshall did stress that work still needed to be done to ensure Little Rock-area students receive […]

One year ago, Georgia teen Kendrick Johnson died. The details surrounding his death have been hazy, with law enforcement officials originally ruling the death an accident. But, Johnson’s family has always suspected foul play, and continue to demand an investigation. On January 11, 2013, Johnson’s body was found rolled up in a wrestling mat inside […]

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked for six months to come up with rules for the city’s gun stores. A federal court struck down Chicago’s ban on gun stores, when a judge ruled it unconstitutional. 

A Texas man who has paid his back child support debt in full has been sentenced to jail. Clifford Hall says when the amount of child support for his 11-year-old son was modified, no one told him. 

The family of a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead has successfully won a battle to keep the child on life support. Jahi McMath suffered from cardiac arrest during a routine tonsillectomy. She never regained consciousness. The child’s family has been fighting to keep her on life support, as doctors at Children’s Memorial Oakland say that […]

In August 2013, North Carolina enacted one of the nation’s most comprehensive reforms of the voting process. Under the new law, early voting will be reduced, Election Day-registration will be eliminated, and every voter will have to produce government-issued identification. These reforms are likely to have disproportionate effects on young people of color; shortening the early voting period is likely to […]

Florida State University quarterback Jameis Winston is now the proud recipient of the 79th Heisman Trophy. The award comes on the heels of a court ruling in favor of Winston’s innocence regarding the sexual assault of a woman.

A suburban Illinois pastor has shot and killed himself inside of his Matteson home. Pastor Ed Montgomery’s pleading son and mother begged him not to take his life on Saturday, but the grief due to the loss of his wife overcame him. Montgomery and his wife Prophetess Jackie Montgomery had both served at the Full […]