A few weeks later, O.F.C.C.P.’s acting director proposed slashing its staff by 90 percent. In fewer than two months, six decades of civil rights enforcement was essentially dead.

In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay rights movement traded a legacy of civil rights successes for radical ideas that are turning off modern-day Americans, like trying ...

By most other measures, however, the movement for transgender rights was approaching its nadir. Weeks earlier, Donald J. Trump had swept to re-election, buoyed by tens of millions of dollars in ...

Annette Abernathy says it became the “work space” for the Civil Rights Movement. Plans were made here, marchers were fed and church was held every Sunday. It later laid abandoned for years ...

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues ...

In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding to remember what the Civil Rights Movement was really made of — not just legal wins ...