The Supreme Court signaled Friday that it will take a broader look at a high-profile redistricting fight over Louisiana’s ...

In a pending case on Louisiana’s congressional map, the justices ordered briefing on whether it’s constitutional to ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court, in June of 2022, issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned the 50-year-old ruling in Roe v. Wade, abortion rights were, obviously, ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

Weeks into Trump 2.0, Equal Rights Amendment advocates see a bleak political landscape. Instead of focusing on the U.S. Constitution, many are zooming in on the states. Why it matters: The century ...

We did not pick a fight over bathrooms, the fact that we exist and go to the bathroom became the focal point of efforts to undermine legal gains for all LGBTQ people. Between 2016 and 2019, efforts to ...

What you just saw was pulled from a PBS American Experience documentary which aired in March. In 1990, the Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA, emerged as a landmark civil rights law, one that … ...

Malala Yousafzai is known by millions around the world as an activist and human rights campaigner, a voice of power and inspiration who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban at age 15.

In his contribution to Vani's "moral archive," Jason tells the story of how Jimmy's early life as a child in the Deep South influenced his work on equal rights initiatives — and how women made ...

Sixty years ago, on March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights activists, also known as foot soldiers, marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to fight for the right to vote for Black people. As they ...