The use of a voice-cloning technology marrying old audio clips to an actor's narration is bringing an historic U.S. Supreme Court decision to life. A recreation allows listeners to ‘hear’ the oral arguments and reading of the decision in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. That decision launched school desegregation at the beginning of the civil rights era. Friday represents the 70th anniversary of the decision being handed down. Old recordings of former Chief Justice Earl Warren and future Justice Thurgood Marshall were used. Not everybody is a fan of the technology, however, worrying about a bad precedent being set

An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Thirty-year-old Lauren Handy declined to address the court before a U.S. district judge sentenced her on Tuesday to four years and nine months in prison. Handy’s supporters applauded and called her a hero as she was led from the courtroom. Handy was among several people convicted of federal civil rights offenses for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020. Prosecutors say a co-defendant accosted a woman who was having labor pains and prevented her from getting off a floor.

Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white state troopers stunning, beating and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!” Yet five years on, a federal investigation into the case remains open with no end in sight. Mona Hardin is Greene's mother. She says she feels angry that other major civil rights cases from that period — including George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery — have long ago been prosecuted. She asks, “Where’s Ronald Greene’s justice?” A Justice Department spokesperson says only that the probe remains ongoing.

Civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers are concerned about a push by some House Republicans to include a citizenship question on the once-a-decade census. The legislation facing an expected House vote later Wednesday would eliminate people who aren’t citizens from the head count that helps determine political power in the United States. A similar attempt failed before the last census in 2020 and was promoted by the Trump administration. The GOP bill is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled and the White House opposes it. But opponents are still concerned that the legislation could get this far in the Republican-led House.