The Supreme Court case that ended the dream of racially integrated schools in America
The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.
Luigi Mangione's lawyers zero in on his final 30 minutes of freedom to argue police made a mistake
A legal battle is brewing over how police in a small Pennsylvania town questioned, searched, and arrested the United ...
The Supreme Court — and Black voters — may decide who controls the next Congress
Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...
Top Law Firms Defend Overhaul of America’s Business Court
After backlash from Elon Musk and companies like Meta, Big Law is publicly supporting a bill seeking to reform the Delaware ...
Leon Black's lawsuit against rape accuser's ex-law firm is dismissed
A New York state appeals court on Thursday dismissed billionaire investor Leon Black's lawsuit against the Wigdor law firm ...
Leon Black Case Against NY Law Firm That Sued Him Thrown Out
Leon Black’s lawsuit against a New York law firm that represented a woman who accused the billionaire of sexual assault was ...
Columbia Activist Has Not Been Allowed to Speak Privately With Lawyers
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident who the Trump administration has claimed is a national security threat, is in ...
Why Harvard Law Is Losing Black Students
A year after the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, the law school’s first-year Black student enrollment plummeted — ...
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow birthright citizenship ban in some states
Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship.
Missouri Attorney General Wants To Send Exonerated Man Back To Prison
A wrongly convicted Black man who spent over 30 years behind bars could face a return to prison if the Missouri Attorney ...
Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum chronicles ‘This Woman’s Work’
Black policing in Miami was not always as integrated as it is today. Black officers were once marginalized. The Black Police ...
America's first Black lawyer started in Maine. His only known portrait has been missing for decades.
The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...