The music mogul’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a sex-trafficking charge, saying that the law involved has “racist ...

Lawyers for Sean "Diddy Combs" claim one of the federal charges against him relies on a "racist" law historically "used to ...

Diddy’s attorneys highlighted the history of the Mann Act, originally known as the White-Slave Traffic Act, calling it "racist in its inception" as they maintain it continues to be. They also ...

They then cited the Mann Act claiming that it had "a long and troubling history as a statute with racist origins, used to target Black men and supposedly protect White women from them." ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ attorneys are fighting back against one of his charges, arguing that the prosecution is racially biased and based on a law, originally known as the White-Slave Traffic ...

as the Mann Act has a history of racist enforcement and is also known as the White-Slave Traffic Act. “This prosecution is yet another instance where [the Mann Act] has been invidiously deployed ...

or Mann Act, is being weaponized against Combs despite its racist history. Attorneys wrote that one of the people who cosigned the bill back in the early 1900s cited a story of a “Negro” who ...

Combs is awaiting trial, tentatively scheduled to begin in May, on racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and violating the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting someone across state lines for ...

Amy Sussman/Getty Images Sean “Diddy” Combs is seeking to dismiss at least one of the charges against him in a federal ...

The hip-hop mogul's legal team claims the Mann Act, a 1910 law under ... has never been brought before under this Act, which has a long and troubling history as a statute with racist origins ...

Getty Images The “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper’s legal team is seeking to have the charge thrown out on the basis that the Mann ... The act has a “long and troubling history as a statute ...