Dorothy Irene Height, a Richmond native whose fight for racial and gender equality spanned eight decades -- 40 years as head of the National Council of Negro Women -- died Tuesday in Washington.

Rising to prominence at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s ... "It's filled with Black women who are servants who are getting slapped in the face by white women who are masters ...

It was a turning point for Tyler in a 60-plus-year career on stage and behind the scenes, advancing the causes of women ... liberation movement focusing on sex to a gay civil rights movement ...

women, LGBTQIA folk." "I grew up in the wake of the civil rights movement where we celebrated all the heroes in the progress and the gains, and knowing that there's still so much work that needs to be ...

women, LGBTQIA folk." "I grew up in the wake of the civil rights movement where we celebrated all the heroes in the progress and the gains, and knowing that there's still so much work that needs ...

Firefighters extinguished the fire, but the officers inexplicably turned and marched a couple of blocks deeper into the campus, stopped in front of Alexander Hall, a women’s dormitory ... the laws ...

What do they say they're doing with the Civil Rights Division? LUCAS: So first off, the Civil Rights Division has been around for almost 70 years. It was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and ...

Jemele Hill has upset thousands of people with her recent comments. CNN contributor Scott Jennings went toe-to-toe with the progressive writer over the Supreme Court allowing the Trump ...

Courts long understood discrimination to be an intentional act, but that began to change after the adoption of the landmark Civil Rights Act ... used by a "pernicious movement" to replace merit ...

California’s two U.S. senators have joined with Democratic colleagues to demand answers from the Trump loyalist and Californian now heading the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ...

The civil rights division was established under President Eisenhower in 1957, during the early stages of the civil rights movement and ... students from playing women’s sports.