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

A Canadian neo-Nazi faces new assault and civil rights intimidation charges in conjunction with a previously unreported ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're taking a look at three Nashville landmarks that played a major role in the Civil ...

Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...

Throughout history, Black women have been at the forefront of social movements, from the suffrage and civil rights movements ...

As a challenge to World Hijab Day on 1 February, No Hijab Day aims to confront the dominant narrative that packages the hijab as a symbol of women’s ‘empowerment’ and ‘choice’ and any opposition to it ...

I n 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the ...

Holder, the president of the Equal Justice Society, has spent more than two decades working to dismantle systems of racial ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a directive to its Civil Rights Division, freezing all ongoing or new litigation. The specifics of the freeze are not clear; however, it appears to ...

raising fears that other rights violations will go unpunished A Louisiana appeals court has upheld the suspension of an LSU law professor who criticized Gov. Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump ...