Darrin Gayles is a graduate of Howard University and the George Washington University School of Law, and the first out gay ...

A Wisconsin judge has approved the conditional release of Morgan Geyser, who as a child nearly stabbed a classmate to death ...

Retired 15th Circuit Judge Moses Baker, far left, administers the oath of office to his daughter, Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes, as she is ...

A Wisconsin woman will be released from a mental hospital more than a decade after she nearly stabbed a classmate to death to ...

Bonnie J. Dunbar, Eva Guzman, Vicki Hollub, Adair Margo and Christine A. Nix were inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.

Louisiana, long known for its 'prison economy,' now houses more ICE detention facilities than any other non-border state.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in on Thursday as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman justice, in an historic move for the United States President Joe Biden’s pick to replace the ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive ...

Even though a jury found Hankinson guilty last November of violating Breonna Taylor’s civil rights by using excessive force, federal prosecutors are only asking for a one-day sentence for the former ...

Carol Moseley Braun is a woman of many firsts. She was both the first Black woman and Black Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first female senator from Illinois. In her new memoir ...

Jessica Hyatt is now the youngest African-American woman National Chess Master in U.S. history, having achieved this feat at the age of 19. She holds three major chess titles: National Master, ...