civil rights

When Selma, Alabama, was recently torn apart by that tornado, it was hard not to think of another time when it was torn asunder by racism.

A former Kay County corrections officer will serve time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of three pretrial detainees.

Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.

The agency said that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.

A group of alumni from the former Northeast High School in Oklahoma City returned to their alma mater this weekend to remember their old school and activism, many engaged in more than 50 years ago.

Voices from the 1960s reflect on the 2020s: "We feel that we are reliving the past."

Arkansas State Police said the agency would investigate the use of force.

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.

J. Alexander Kueng was sentenced to three years and Tou Thao got 3 1/2 years — penalties that a judge said reflected their level of culpability in a case that sparked worldwide protests.

This episode of Focus: Black Oklahoma features reports on tribal tax exemptions, new data on the long-term effects of COVID and Black excellence being showcased in an exhibit at the Claremore Museum of History.