This lawyer turned politician is seeking office to encourage police reform, repair community relationships, and directly oppose the regressive policies of the Trump administration.

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Jeff Sessions released a new directive Friday for federal prosecutors to charge suspects with the most serious provable offense.

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Loretta Lynch finally gets sworn in as attorney general on Frederick Douglass' bible.

Loretta Lynch was sworn in Monday morning by Vice President Joe Biden as the 83rd U.S. attorney general during a moving ceremony at the U.S.…

The White House is calling out the GOP for taking too long to confirm Loretta Lynch’s attorney general nomination. It’s been 159 days since Lynch was nominated to take over for outgoing attorney general Eric Holder and she still hasn’t been confirmed. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was not going to let Senate Judiciary […]

We have no idea why Loretta Lynch is still waiting to be confirmed as the new Attorney General to replace Eric Holder. And while we’re all getting restless, Lynch’s biggest supporters (an advocacy group founded by Rev. Al Sharpton) have been extremely vocal about their patience running thin, protesting the delay. Their latest plan is to […]

About 20 prominent Black women (Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner, Attorney Barbara Arnwine, President of the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, Melanie Campbell, President of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Sheila Tyson, a City Councilwoman from Birmingham, Ala., and Marcia Dyson, CEO of the Women’s Global Initiative) arrived at the U.S. Capitol office suites of […]

Republicans are holding up the confirmation process for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch over one key issue. The GOP is really dragging its heels on clearing Loretta to take her place as the next Attorney General of the United States. A Senate Judiciary Committee voted to confirm Loretta last month, opening the process up to […]

U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch has emerged as the top choice to replace Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder announced in September that he would step down once there was someone there to replace him. Lynch is currently the top prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York and if she gets the position, she will be the first Black […]

A group of conservative Black pastors are working hard to kick Attorney General Eric Holder out of the White House after his recent remarks on same-sex marriage laws. Having condemned Holder for trying “to coerce states to fall in line with the same-sex ‘marriage’ agenda,” the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) announced earlier this week a […]