The recent musical "Larry Itliong" has drawn attention to the legacy of the Filipino civil rights leader known for his significant role in advocating for the rights of farm workers.

On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against his immigration crackdown isn’t the first time an elected U.S. official has sent troops to thwart ...

NEW YORK — Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and ‘70s whose “Against Our Will” was a landmark and intensely debated best-seller about sexual assault, has died. She was 90 ...

It’s been 100 years since Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and 60 years since he was assassinated. His expansive legacy is the focus of a new book written by journalist Mark Whitaker. He ...

A new biography about New Jersey native Marsha P. Johnson details how she inspired a revolution through her joy.

Five years after the murder of George Floyd in police custody, Chicago civil rights and justice experts tell ABC7 that calls for change have stalled.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, said the Trump administration would rightfully ”focus on individual discrimination cases,” which she said are “more ...

Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, said the Trump administration would rightfully ”focus on individual discrimination cases,” which she said are “more ...

A journalist, anti-war protester and civil rights activist before joining the “second wave” feminist movement in its formative years ... Brownmiller started the book in the early 1970s after hearing ...

But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when anti ...