"I was a Black kid in a white neighborhood and I wanted to be a white kid living in a white neighborhood," Russell Gibbons said in HBO's "Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn."
Fair Wayne Bryant's life sentence for the 1997 theft was upheld by the Louisiana Supreme Court, 5-1, but Chief Justice Bernette Johnson, the court's lone Black member, said in a stinging dissent that the punishment was rooted in racist law.
North Carolina father John Neville, 56, was shown a “very definite lack of respect for human dignity, for human life, especially a Black human life in jail,” his lawyers said of newly released video showing the events that led to his death.
Brittney Gilliam and four minor relatives were on a trip to a nail salon when they were ordered out of their car at gunpoint and placed in handcuffs. The Aurora (Colorado) Police Department has since apologized.