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Cecil Williams spent decades photographing South Carolina's civil rights history

In 2023, we marked 20 years since the Iraq War, 50 years since the birth of hip-hop, and 60 years since the JFK assassination. Here's a roundup of historical events we wrote about over the past year.

Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.

Worden Butler, 28, and Alexis Hartnett, 27, under federal civil rights probe after allegedly burning cross in their backyard at Thanksgiving

Florida congressman Maxwell Frost, who introduced the Fight Banned Books Act, says bans are ‘baseless attack on our civil rights’

Texas' controversial new border law, being challenged by civil rights groups, raises concerns about housing and training for migrants. Governor Abbott inte...

Texas faces a legal battle as civil rights groups sue over a controversial border law, raising concerns over racial profiling and constitutional rights. Th...

The organizations claim that the law, which was passed yesterday and is set to go into effect in March, is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law

Members of Congress want Department of Justice to challenge Texas law

Civil rights organization challenged a new Texas immigration law on Tuesday which would allow police to arrest migrants suspectedly of crossing the border illegally and permit judges to order them to leave the U.S. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Austin on Tuesday, comes less than 24 hours after…

George Santos gets grilled about his lies, federal charges and ignorance of civil rights icons in a hilarious, yet revealing talk show interview.