Intersex people have always existed. How they first started to find each other, build community and forge a movement against ...

Local police for years have been charged under civil rights laws for abuses of authority. Now, DOJ is taking a closer look at ...

Jamie Lee Curtis is Hollywood royalty — and at the same time, the least likely star to lift a pinky finger in pretension. She ...

On Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), one of the most consequential victories in ...

We cannot deny our ugly history with racial discrimination in this country, especially as it pertains to access to the ...

This past week was the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Most people don’t realize that its provisions were basically the same as the GOP-authored and passed Enforcement Acts of 1870 ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut ...

A large group of citizens attended the “Fight for the Vote: 60th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.” on Wednes 6, ...

WASHINGTON — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic ...

Alabama leaders and people of all ages will gather in Selma Wednesday, August 6, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Civil Rights Memorial ...