The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs ...

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

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

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

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

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

They’re in-house Negroes,” the Rev. Johnny Flakes III said, referring to the two Black councilors who supported this move.

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

"We stand here in support of civil rights, stand here in support of voting rights, stand here in support of racial justice, social justice, economic justice," Jeffries told the crowd. "They want ...

Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

Assaults on our democracy are not new, but thanks to those brave foot soldiers 60 years ago we have the tools to fight them.

John Lewis, a longtime Congressman from Georgia and fearless champion of civil rights and voting equality who died almost 5 years ago on July 17, 2020, we must confront the persisting battle to ...