The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

Secret Foreign Office unit distributed literature from fake sources to discredit Stokely Carmichael

NEW YORK — Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton has chosen a few entertainment powerhouses as the recipients of this year’s National Action Network Triumph Awards.

A simmering, difficult, and timely question returns to the Supreme Court this fall: What happens when freedom of speech and civil rights collide?

Recently enacted rule blocks Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming treatments, which plaintiffs and civil rights attorneys argue will make life in Florida ‘simply impossible’ for thousands of people

As Illinois Democrats continue to seek a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines after the Highland Park massacre on July 4, critics of gun safety laws voice a familiar rebuttal:

“Her voice will be missed, I think even by those who hated to see her walk into the meeting,” brother says

It’s widely understood that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. evolved significantly on the issue of reparations during his short lifetime. Toward the start of his career, he was a moralist in his thinking, rather than the radical economic thinker he later became. In 2018, I befriended Dr. King’s…

Civil rights activists and some lawmakers are concerned that new redistricting maps in three Southern states will dilute the voices of Black people

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.