President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to ...

Civil rights leaders say Trump, a longtime antagonist, is overreaching by taking over policing in the nation's capital.

The neighborhood still wrestles with problems that were exacerbated by the racially charged violence that broke out in 1975, longtime residents said.

An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended the discriminatory practices against Black voters that were prevalent in many states.

Brevard couple who investigators say were shot to death by their grandson were strong on faith, family and civil rights ...

More than 80 years later, officials, veterans and civil rights groups, are urging Congress to award World War II hero Dorie Miller the Medal of Honor.

Martin Sitto allegedly assaulted his Black neighbors, yelled the "white race is ending," and threatened to slit a Black woman's throat.

Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged it, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting ...

A Michigan man was jailed on felony hate crime charges for a violent assault he’s accused of committing against his Black neighbors in which he shouted racial slurs, then punched and spat on ...