A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

The Department of Education’s mass layoffs on Tuesday affected some 1,315 employees — including civil servants around the ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Dr. Hazel Dukes, an iconic civil rights leader and president of the NAACP New York State Conference, has died at age 92. Dukes died peacefully Saturday morning, Ronald Dukes, her son, said in a ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors who say they’re losing millions thanks to those states’ race and ...

Eden Prairie students reflect on civil rights icons through art, writing, and poetry in the 2025 Words in Action Contest.

Greed, bitterness and hatred will not dictate the future of America. That timely and sobering message of the never-ending fight for civil rights and preservation of our democracy took center stage at ...

Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere.

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...

Examining Cole through the lens of his activism uncovers the nuanced ways in which he challenged the status quo and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the polished veneer of his ...