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Marcus Dixon was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in Georgia for having sex with an underage white girl when he was 18. Dayonn Davis, another black youth, got a five-year prison sentence for stealing a $100 pair of shoes ...

R. Kelly says boycotting his music because of the sexual-abuse allegations against him amounts to a “public lynching.” Bill Cosby’s people say his conviction was a lynching, too. Kanye West, in trying to defend his inflammatory comments about slavery, has ...

A young Barack Obama questioned his place in the world and his racial identity, agonized over whether he’d make enough money as a community organizer, and lamented his incompatibility with his ex-girlfriend in 30 pages of letters he wrote to ...

For almost eight years, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus existed in the shadow of the first black president. They praised President Barack Obama’s achievements while at the same time pushing him to do more for their constituents who ...

A few miles off in any direction, and the debate about the knife involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest by Baltimore police may have been completely different. The state of Maryland has one set of laws governing knives. The city of ...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks in October during a lecture series at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. The Supreme Court will join Congress and the president next year in cutting costs to reduce the federal deficit, Roberts said last week in his year-end report.

More than 500 decisions by the leading federal agency that referees disputes between labor and management will have to be reopened after the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the five-member board had operated illegally when its membership dwindled to two.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's review of the book "A Confirmation Mess" is creating a confirmation mess of its own.

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the National Football League’s request for broad antitrust law protection Monday, saying that it must be considered 32 separate teams – not one big business – when selling branded items like jerseys and caps. “Although ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a mother illegally moved her son from Chile to the United States during a custody dispute with the boy’s British father in the first test of the boundaries of an international child custody treaty. ...