Gov. David Paterson says a racial discrimination suit filed by a photographer who was fired from a state job is being settled for $300,000.

A man accused of leading an election night rampage that put one victim in a coma told a judge Monday he organized the attacks because he was drunk and angry about Barack Obama’s victory.

Three white New Yorkers, riled by Barack Obama’s victory, spent election night hunting down black people to beat up and yelling insults about the president-elect, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Three New York teenagers have been charged with federal civil rights charges in connection with election night racial violence in which attackers shouted “Obama.”

The U.S. Education Department has broadened a review into whether Princeton University discriminates against applicants of Asian descent.The university said Tuesday that it’s providing admissions information to the Education Department as part of an...

A man who was on death row for nearly 20 years until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his verdict because of racial discrimination has pleaded guilty to the 1985 slaying for which he was originally sentenced to die.Thomas Miller-El accepted a deal with..

One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen “when a big black guy beats up..

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a lawsuit claiming that the American Ballet Theatre fired a musician because of his age.The lawsuit says trumpet player Henry Nowak was fired in September 2005, when he was 74. The agency said.