Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We ...

A Times examination shows how a landmark case about gender-affirming care for minors was built on flawed politics and ...

The U.S. Department of Education says California violated the civil rights of students by allowing transgender students to ...

President Donald Trump ran in 2024 on enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. As he follows through on that promise, he has ...

Developed in Central America during the 1980s, accompaniment strategies show how movements can reduce attacks and resist state repression.

As federal troops occupy Los Angeles, political leaders invoke civil rights history—but their comparisons conceal more than ...

In his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights, Peniel Joseph writes how 1963 was a landmark one for the Civil Rights Movement.Now, Joseph says, the United States is ...

A decade after SCOTUS handed down the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, some polling has shown that the trend might be reversing.

The government of Vietnam severely restricts basic civil and political rights in violation of the International Covenant on ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

In recent years, the state of trans rights across the Americas has been marked by a striking pattern of historic advances and ...