Hassan Kanu

The Biden administration has made perhaps its most significant intervention yet against conservative efforts to limit the democratic power of Black people.

(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)

The latest charges leveled against former President Donald Trump were brought under Reconstruction-era laws. And though those laws were written to combat the Ku Klux Klan, they are precisely applicable to his brazen attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

A federal appeals court last Friday struck down a white supremacist law that had persisted in Mississippi since it was first enacted by the state’s neo-Confederate government in 1890 to deny Black people the vote.

A U.N.-appointed panel issued a report last week documenting “shocking” violations of basic human rights and pointing to “staggering” racial disparities that place the U.S. criminal justice system in a singular category on the world stage.

Oct 24 (Reuters) - Justice Clarence Thomas recently recused himself in a case related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but given his prior

Two recent lawsuits led by right-wing activist Edward Blum that challenge the U.S. military’s race-conscious admissions practices could produce another monumental ruling that would effectively invalidate affirmative action across an even broader range of institutions and sectors – although you’d hardly know that from looking at the complaints.

A federal appeals court issued a jarring opinion on Monday that exempts lawmakers from the duty to provide evidence in race discrimination cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court released its first formal code of conduct on Monday, announcing that it was taking action after years of outside pressure by gathering already existing rules in one place in order to “dispel” a “misunderstanding” that the justices don’t abide by any ethics rules.

The anti-obscenity law is unenforceable and probably unconstitutional. Conservatives still want to use it to ban medication abortions.