Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement ... director of the Racial Justice Project, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern ...

Still, the chaotic 48 hours suggested that some in the Trump administration had overestimated their ability to impose ...

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal ...

For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement ... and inspiring leaders in education, women’s rights and ...

Officials in the Trump Justice Department have ordered a temporary freeze on any ongoing cases being litigated by the Civil Rights Division, according to a new directive reviewed by ABC News.

Civil rights activists have gathered outside Target's Minneapolis headquarters to call for a boycott of the retailing giant over its decision to phase out its diversity, equity and inclusion ...

1:46 City of Vancouver sued over daytime sheltering ban The BC Civil Liberties Association says ... the ban violates sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The association says it is ...

As a U.S.-focused human rights and civil liberties organization, the ACLU takes no position on the ICC’s arrest warrants, but we are deeply concerned that the impact of sanctions would violate the ...

A lawsuit has been filed against an Arkansas county judge who fired a library after she opposed efforts to ban books.

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (PHRC) Civil Rights Outreach Division is holding a community response meeting at Dickenson College tonight to discuss hate ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Civil rights activists gathered outside the headquarters of Target Corp. on Thursday to call for a national boycott of the retailing giant over its decision to phase out its ...