Kevin McCall, a civil rights activist, believes that justice will be celebrated, saying, “On August 4 th, it will be a national holiday in New York state because a correctional officer that put a ...

The University conferred six honorary degrees during Thursday's Commencement ceremony. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known world-wide over as one of the greatest basketball players to ever play the game as ...

PLAQUEMINE, La. (WAFB) - A power outage is being planned for the entire City of Plaquemine, officials said. The outage will take place on Sunday, June 15, between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m ...

Nairobi (AFP) – Kenyan human rights campaigner Boniface Mwangi broke down in tears Monday as he recounted brutal treatment including "sexual torture" at the hands of Tanzanian security forces ...

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In 2016, at age 89, the retired schoolteacher and longtime community activist took up the cause ... After the U.S. Civil War ended, Texas was the last former Confederate state to recognize ...

Jim Rawlings, a civil rights champion and health equity advocate who spent decades fighting for everything from good jobs for Black New Haveners to investment in research and treatment for those ...

Teens ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ — “A northern Virginia man says he’s frustrated by a group of teens who did a version of “ding-dong ditch,” banging on his door while dressed in ski masks and ...

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“The body of the work or the subject of my exhibition is Malcolm X, and sort of exploring the dimensions of who he was as a man, as a father, as a thinker, philosopher, civil rights ...

The sailing boat Madleen – operated by activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition — will embark from the Sicilian port of Catania, in southern Italy. It will try to reach the shores of the Gaza Strip ...

She leads the Anticorruption and Justice Program for the human rights group Cristosal ... broad discretionary powers to crack down on civil society organizations. SIMON: As I don't have to tell you, ...