Celebrations of Juneteenth, the new federal holiday that honors the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas, are growing ...

Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized last month while visiting Ohio to mark the 30th ...

Jim Rawlings, a civil rights champion and health equity advocate who spent decades fighting for everything from good jobs for ...

A Black teenager, on the ground, vastly outnumbered. An angry mob surrounds him, taking turns punching, kicking and peppering ...

A conservative group that’s pursuing anti-DEI complaints against more than a dozen state universities on Wednesday targeted ...

Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an ...

Jerrauld C. Jones, a longtime judge and state delegate, has died at 70. Jones became one of the first African-American ...

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. In his drive to ...

A lifelong Norfolk resident, Jones represented Virginia’s 89th District from 1988 to 2002 and served as a judge in Norfolk from 2005 to 2024.

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

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

Scotched in the midst of a DEI purge, the scholarship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was meant ultimately to ...