Racial reckonings were happening everywhere in the summer of 2020, after George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis police. The time felt right, two forensic anthropologists reasoned, to reignite a ...

A former forensic scientist at the Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory in Topeka is suing, alleging she was discriminated against. Deborah Broil, who is 74-year-old Black woman, is alleging race ...

A century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, during which a white mob torched Black homes and businesses in the Oklahoma city’s Greenwood area, which was also known as Black Wall Street, some basic ...

Intermountain Forensics, a non-profit DNA testing laboratory located in Salt Lake City, Utah, has been tasked with identifying victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre whose remains were removed from ...

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A forensic scientist who has worked with police and presented evidence in major court cases has said she is “delighted and humbled” to be given a damehood. Professor Dame Lorna Dawson is head of the ...