The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

Colorado's second-highest court ruled last month that prosecutors in two cases did not engage in intentional racial ...

For several years, Ames’s case made its way through the U.S. court system before landing at the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. That court ruled against her even though it viewed “the evidentiary record ...

Maryland's prison system faces racial disparities and injustice. The Second Look Act could offer a remedy, but it's being ...

The Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative released a report detailing historical roots and current drivers of mass ...

A new report by the Equal Justice Initiative highlights the issue of racial bias in ... accountability for this injustice more difficult. In May 2024, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruled ...

Marlean Ames received numerous promotions and good evaluations over the years working in Ohio's youth corrections system, so when she was denied a promotion and demoted in 2019 with a $40,000 pay cut ...

By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...

People in the federal court system don't have the same kind of job protections ... The bill would make clear that the civil ...

Supreme Court ... system. What happened when Ames tried to sue for discrimination? Ames sued the department under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination based on “race ...