All month long, WIVB News 4 will be celebrating Black History Month. We’re focusing on a special recognition from the NFTA, which is honoring legendary civil ...

Samuel L. Jackon's Super Bowl LIX cameo was a full-circle moment reflecting his lifelong commitment to social commentary and change.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has initiated compliance reviews into ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

On what would have been Rosa Parks' 112th birthday, U.S. Representatives Terri A. Sewell of Alabama, Joyce M. Beatty of Ohio, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change. The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This landmark legislation outlawed segregation ...

It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) domestically enforceable. The Bill of ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Ruins of the church of San Agustín in the old town of Belchite, scene of one of the symbolic battles of the Spanish Civil War.ANDREA COMAS (Reuters) Among the 25 places on the most recent WMF watch ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

Johnson's order was issued against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It served as a cornerstone in ...