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Democrats wanted Republicans to agree to bipartisan talks before beginning debate on the GOP police reform bill. GOP leaders argued Democrats should have allowed debate to try to amend the bill.

Terrance Curtain has attended a few different demonstrations around Cleveland since the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of a white police officer in Minneapolis. Sometimes, the pastor and assistant school principal speaks about racial inequality. Sometimes, he leads the crowd in chants. But when he started thinking about how he wanted to mark Juneteenth this year, he imagined something different.

The Cleveland branch of the NAACP is demanding reforms to local law enforcement agencies, amid renewed attention on police use of force, especially with black people. The proposed reforms stop short of calling for the total defunding or abolishment of police departments, as some groups have demanded.

The Ohio branch of the nation's oldest civil rights organization has endorsed an ballot initiative aimed at streamlining the state's voting…

Retired federal judge and local civil rights icon Nathaniel Jones has passed away.

More than 235,000 Ohio voters are on a list to be removed from the voter rolls in a little over two weeks.Those inactive voters are thought to be dead,…

Nearly two dozen groups and individuals are asking Ohio’s top elections official for a list of voters who could be dropped from the rolls this fall, so…

A national civil rights organization says Cleveland’s water department applies tax liens for unpaid bills disproportionately in majority-black neighborhoods in Cuyahoga County. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund said its full report, which is expected to be released in June, will examine what it calls a crisis in water affordability in black communities. The organization released a summary report Wednesday showing 11,000 liens were attached to properties between 2014 and 2018. In most years, around two thirds of the liens were in majority African-American census tracts.

Groups representing low-income people are calling on state regulators to reject AT&T’s plan to drop out of a federal program that helps over 10,000 of its…

Many Haitians in the U.S. have been protected from deportation since a 2010 earthquake, but the DHS says Haiti has improved enough for their return. The NAACP says the decision is racially motivated.