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Congress has empowered the Justice Department to investigate unsolved killings of the civil rights era, but 120 DOJ investigations have closed without new federal charges, Bloomberg Law found. The cold case inquiries were hindered by lost evidence, dead witnesses, and weak civil rights era laws.

FRONTLINE has been honored with three 2022 Edward R. Murrow Awards, recognizing the award-winning PBS series’ innovative storytelling, documentary journalism and collaborative investigative reporting. 

FRONTLINE’s 2021 multi-platform project "Un(re)solved" and “Poisoned,” an investigative series from the Tampa Bay Times in collaboration with FRONTLINE’s Local Journalism Initiative were honored with NABJ Awards.

One year after the debut of this major initiative, explore the award-winning, multiplatform experience examining a federal effort to grapple with America’s legacy of racist killings through the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act.

Generations of inaction ended on March 29 when President Joe Biden signed the Emmett Till...

In 1970, the Black 22-year-old Chapel Hill resident was murdered by a Durham-based white supremacist group on UNC-Chapel Hills campus.

We're now in the calm before the storm as Dick Durbin shepherds the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination to a confirmation vote Monday. Meanwhile, Tammy Duckworth takes aim at potential price gougers at the pump.

Filmmakers Brad Lichtenstein & Yoruba Richen discuss ‘American Reckoning,’ a documentary about civil-rights-era Black opposition to racist violence.

A new documentary recalls the many forgotten victims of Jim Crow violence and white terrorism whose cases are being rediscovered after half a century

In Louisiana alone, 15 victims from the civil rights era have been included among cases that the FBI has reviewed