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Eating together is how LGBTQ+ Americans can survive the current political moment — just like their queer and trans ancestors ...
HUD will stop monitoring a civil rights agreement over the General Iron matter and dropped a case alleging City Council ...
July 25, 2025, would have marked Illinois’ first Emmett Till Day, a commemoration of the 14-year-old Chicagoan whose 1955 ...
Historically, it has been difficult to build and sustain diverse activist coalitions—but they are uniquely impactful.
By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black voting rights ...
From the House floor, a Chicago lawmaker honors four movement builders—CTU’s Karen Lewis, tenants’ organizer Marianne Stamps, LGBTQ+ activist John Pennycuff, and civil-rights giant Rev. Dr. Calvin ...
In its clash with Columbia University, the Trump administration is touting a historic $221 million settlement as a major triumph for conservative ideology—even though it had originally framed the case ...
Five universities, including the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University, are being investigated for allegedly violating the federal civil rights law by offering scholarships ...
UofL faces civil rights investigation after complaints against 3 scholarships The University of Louisville was one of five schools under investigation, according to the U.S. Department of Education.