In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

A federal judge denied a request from former Saratoga Springs elected officials and city police leaders to dismiss a Lexis ...

Black lawmakers representing the legislature’s Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian (BPHA) Caucus unveiled an “Empower ...

An upstate New York judge has stepped down from his post after he attempted to bypass jury duty by admitting he could not remain impartial because he ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

The elected town supervisor in Irondequoit is accused of sexually harassing a female worker, including making sexual comments ...

New York's Commission on Judicial Conduct investigates judges accused of misbehavior, malfeasance and occasional criminal ...

State Sen. April Baskin on Wednesday highlighted decades of racism in Buffalo's past and decried Trump administration efforts to "erase Black people" in a speech to support a resolution marking ...

the first Black state senator to represent Long Island in the governing body’s 247-year history. In Albany she will represent ...

The city of Ocean Springs has prevailed in a federal lawsuit filed by Black property owners downtown who claimed ... each property owner before taking the action U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel ...

Increasing jurors' compensation, creating a travel stipend, child care services, and relaxing limits on people who struggle with English were among suggestions to diversify jury pools in upstate New ...

An Upstate New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand ... of political and legal action over abortion. In January, one judge let three states continue to challenge federal government ...