Rep. Aime Wichtendahl, Iowa's first out trans lawmaker, said it was "devastating" to see lawmakers pass a bill taking away ...

Black leaders are grappling with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump’s targeting ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

The Rev. Joe Carter was the first African American since 1902 to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish in 1963, but he ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state ...

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma ...

The bill created explicit legal definitions of female and male based on the reproductive organs with which they were born.

Iowa is the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people from state code and advocates for the ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were ...