The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention ... with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person." It also requires that "the reform and social ...

After King's 1968 assassination, Abernathy led the Poor People's Campaign and ... clearly understood there would be a political backlash to his civil rights initiatives, but he also backed civil ...

A proposal introduced in the New York Legislature could make it a crime for people to wear face masks ... leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox ... but is not an extension of it. The first civil rights movement was about getting Black people out of the back of the bus.

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...

Telnaes, if you weren’t sure, is the former Washington Post political cartoonist who resigned ... (“Herblock”), a longtime champion of civil rights in the 20th century.