Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No one can take that away because I lived it, and it's my story. And we can't ...

The Olive Branch High School alumna became the first female African-American judge in Tennessee history in 1982.

Alabama's congressional map is at stake in a federal trial beginning Monday to decide if the state will keep the new ...

Over the course of 90 minutes, that audience heard District Court Judge Wilma Lewis pose questions to Jackson about her life, ...

Trump’s inauguration week order was already on temporary hold nationally because of a separate suit brought by four states in ...

Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Verda Colvin will present “Mentorship: Lifting as We Climb” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, at ...

February is Black History Month, a time to earn more about the history of African Americans. It was founded by the ...

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status ...