Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

And this is what I’ve begun to see, in parts of the Trump right, is this idea that anything that makes you feel sympathy or ...

A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks. The casus belli is a new set of ideas known as the abundance agenda.

Louisvillians are still saying Breonna Taylor's name five years after protests shook the city. Meet five who haven't given up ...

On May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, who was Black, by kneeling on his neck for nine minutes during an arrest. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was convicted on murder ...

“When they were first passed, the cases, almost all of them, involved discrimination against Black ... “It’s important that we, who organized in the 1960’s civil rights movement, don ...

In this episode of “The Opinions,” the Times Opinion politics correspondent Michelle Cottle speaks to the columnists Jamelle Bouie and David French about the rise of “toxic empathy” and how the right ...

Five years after Floyd’s killing, false claims of overdose fuel calls for Trump to pardon the police officers involved.

Al Letson: During the election a lot of people that were ... Civil Rights Act. Black people start moving into government. We see what America could be. It only lasts 12 years. And then the next ...

In Minneapolis, where a bystander used her cellphone to record Floyd’s killing at the hands of police, 16 artists ...

Two decades after the release of his career-defining debut album, megastar musician John Legend tells Red about overcoming ...