Milk is to the gay rights movement what Jackie Robinson was to baseball, what Martin Luther King Jr. was to civil rights, what Betty Friedan ... when he ran again for supervisor in 1977. Equally ...

Artifacts and exhibits related to the enslavement of Black people and the Civil Rights movement have been removed from NMAAHC ...

Since Dobbs, the rhetoric around personhood has become much more extreme—for example, so-called abortion abolitionists ...

A year ago, the world said goodbye to Reverend James Lawson Jr. On today’s show, we look back at the work and legacy this ...

"She was the grand lady of the civil-rights movement and the African-American ... that women had an important role." Ms. Height was born in Richmond on March 24, 1912. Her family moved to a ...

Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

A master strategist and committed pacifist, Bayard Rustin was the architect behind many of the civil rights movement’s most important victories, notably the 1963 March on Washington, where ...

Two autopsies ruled Floyd’s death a homicide, but a false narrative quickly emerged: that Floyd died of a drug overdose. Five years later, despite ample evidence demonstrating police misconduct killed ...

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Explainer-Why Trump Is Ending Enforcement of Civil Rights Laws That Ban 'Disparate ... is one of the tools used by a "pernicious movement" to replace merit-based decisionmaking with a focus ...