A governor stands before a cheering crowd and declares, in effect, that a former presidential candidate cannot step into his ...

Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Tuesday to restore and expand protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ...

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

Protesters opposing the Thacker Pass lithium mine were surveilled for years by the FBI, local law enforcement and private security, records show.

Discover the intersection of Black history and disability rights, featuring icons like Sojourner Truth, Brad Lomax, and Lois ...

The best of them can make us think and laugh at the same time. That was the genius of shows like “ All in the Family ,” created by my organization’s founder, Norman Lear. “Freaky Friday” was ...

Two local residents who participated 60 years ago in the historic civil rights march in Selma, AL, protested together again ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 ...

Vernon Dahmer Jr., eldest son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., has died. We talk to family, friends of the quiet man, full of strength and integrity.

A wreath marks the location where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on the second floor of the Lorraine Hotel, now part of the National Civil Rights Museum, April 3, 2008, in Memphis, Tennessee ...

The newly-unsealed MLK documents should be read in context. They are part of a campaign by the FBI to discredit King and ...

Columbia University will pay over $220m (£162m) to the US government after allegedly violating Jewish student’s civil rights, ...