The 93-year-old activist was honored Thursday for his work in civil rights at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Memphis, Tennessee.
Ex-Oklahoma City officer Daniel Holtzclaw is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday on charges of raping and sexually assaulting Black women.
In an op-ed for NewsOne, Benjamin L. Crump, president of the National Bar Association and prominent civil rights attorney, condemns Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia‘s remarks that some African-Americans are hurt by being admitted to top universities and might be better served at “slower-track” ones. The comments, which generated a firestorm of controversy, came last week during […]
Ben Crump is teaming up with local attorneys to file a federal civil suit against former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw.
The mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice came together for the first time on Dec. 12 to sit for a joint interview with…
Attorney Ben Crump talks to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about the grand jury’s decision to not indict Office Darren Wilson. Click the link…
Members of Atlanta’s civil rights community joined attorney Benjamin Crump at the Georgia State Capitol this week for a rally urging justice for Valdosta teen Kendrick Johnson. The “Who Killed K.J.” rally was attended by Johnson’s parents, Kenneth and Jacqueline Johnson, and hundreds of supporters, including Martin Luther King III and Rev. Raphael Warnock of […]
Benjamin Crump, the attorney best known as the Trayvon Martin family lawyer, is taking the perplexing case of Kendrick Johnson. Maybe now Johnson’s family will…
Benjamin Crump is an attorney from Florida who represents Trayvon Martin‘s family and is an advocate for civil rights. He is partner in his own…
Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain Miami teenager Trayvon Martin, heavily critiqued New York’s controversial Stop-and-Frisk laws in a Sunday appearance on Meet the Press. Trayvon…
