A black ATF supervisor will receive $450,000 to settle a lawsuit that claims the agency discriminated against her after she launched complaints about another supervisor with a Nazi-themed tattoo.
Most people have never heard of James Wormley Jones.
Plans to build a new FBI headquarters have been in limbo under President Trump, but that hasn’t stopped lawmakers and others from debating whether to remove J. Edgar Hoover’s name from a new building.
Federal authorities became worried in 2014 that black activists who were calling for an end to the police killings of black people would join international terrorist groups such as ISIS.
The FBI investigated a popular civil rights group in 2016 because agents believed the left-wing group may have been involved in a “conspiracy” to deny the “rights” of the KKK and other white supremacists.
Prosecutors have struggled for decades to bring justice to victims of civil rights-era killings.
The Justice Department has reopened the 1955 murder case of Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old who was brutally beaten, shot and left for dead in a river in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent resistance in October 1964, the FBI was furious.
