William L. Clay Sr., Missouri’s first Black congressman and a prominent civil rights leader who died last week, was one of the most consequential politicians in the state, rising to power during a ...

Branded as a radical early on, Alfredo Gutierrez was a master at navigating the needs of diverse communities and forging high ...

Iowa has become the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code.

An unrepentant liberal, Clay served more than three decades in Congress, the first African American from Missouri. His son, ...

A new effort is underway in Congress to recognize Atlanta’s historic West Hunter Street Baptist Church as a National Historic Site.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, meaning transgender and nonbinary residents are no ...

A letter to FIFA, signed by more than 90 civil society groups, expresses "deep concern" about Trump's immigration policies.

President Donald Trump ignited outrage after touring a new federal migrant mass detention site in the Florida Everglades—denounced by some as a modern-day concentration camp—and calling for the ...

An American citizen of Chinese heritage, the individual is employed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which operates under the Department of Commerce.

Advocates for families of active-duty troops, legal scholars and ex-military leaders critique the decision to deploy U.S. armed forces to Los Angeles.