Racial Bias

Police Harassment of Black Employees and Patrons at Miami Store Results in Civil Rights Suit

Racial Bias in Texas Death Penalty Case Gaining Attention

North Carolina Repeals Racial Justice Act

Complaint Accuses Federal Judge of Racial Bias

Judge Vacates Three Death Sentences Under North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act

Department of Justice Sues Mississippi Officials for Operating School-to-Prison Pipeline

North Carolina Concludes First Hearing Under Revised Racial Justice Act

Justice Department Finds Incarceration of Black Schoolchildren in Mississippi “Shocks the Conscience”

Prosecutors Will Not Seek New Death Sentence for Mumia Abu-Jamal

Supreme Court Denies Review in Texas Case Where State Relied on Defendant’s Race to Obtain Death Sentence

Supreme Court Stays Texas Execution in Case Tainted by Racial Bias

David Baldus, Author of Groundbreaking Study on Race and the Death Penalty, Dies

Alabama’s Recently Enacted Immigration Law Draws Criticism

New North Carolina Law Aims to Combat Race Bias in Death Penalty

Alabama Leads Nation in Sentencing Black Kids to Life Imprisonment

EJI Challenges Death Sentence Infected by Racial Bias and Imposed Despite the Jury’s Life Sentence