In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Illinois AG Lisa Madigan asked the DOJ's Civil Rights Division to determine if the department's practices violate federal law.

Earlier this year, the Justice Department released a program to better train police in how they interact with local communities.

US Attorney of the Eastern District of Tennessee William C. Killian has said that federal officials are "treating this as an act of domestic terrorism."

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Racial oppression (particularly suffered by blacks) will not come to an end until we erase the stigmas of pathological deviance that is constantly being attributed to black bodies.

The investigation on the Baltimore Police Department could start as early as today.

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A day after U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch visited Baltimore in the wake of unrest after Freddie Gray died of fatal injuries received in police custody,…

Hours after she was sworn in as the first African-American woman to hold the office of Attorney General, Loretta Lynch released a statement about the…

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When U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. leaves office next week, he leaves behind some big shoes to fill. But if anyone is qualified…

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In the Senate Gallery, the section above the floor of the United States Senate, there was a raucous, involuntary roar as the vote was read…