The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

CHICAGO — The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks this line in the documentary “Loudmouth,” the first on his legacy: “People call me to blow up issues. I’m the blow-up man and I don’t apologize for that.”

The agency said that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.

Newly uncovered evidence linked police investigation into 1994 New Orleans murder to disgraced officer currently on federal death row

In The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks, an often simplified icon of civil rights is given an expansive and deserving tribute

Jean McGuire will never walk alone in Franklin Park again after she was attacked there by a knife-wielding stranger nearly a week ago.

A 91-year-old civil rights activist and education pioneer who was stabbed while walking her dog in a Boston park last week says she no longer feels safe walking alone

A new biopic about the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement, is being promoted as a tribute to Black women and Black mothers who are continuing her legacy and fight for justice, equality and equity

A 91-year-old education equity pioneer and civil rights activist who was stabbed while walking her dog in a Boston park has released her first public statement since the attack, keeping the focus on her lifetime work of helping children

Spanish authorities failed to uphold domestic and international law in returning to Morocco nearly 500 migrants following a mass border crossing in which at least 23 people died, the country's civil rights ombudsman said in an interim report on Friday.