The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

The Supreme Court's ruling striking down laws banning same-sex marriage was a great victory for liberty and equality. But it should have been based on better legal reasoning.

The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its civil rights investigation into a planned Muslim-centered community near Dallas without filing charges

The collapse of classical Hollywood’s studio system in the 1960s mirrored much of America’s cultural and political uncertainties at the time. The assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement and the escalating Vietnam war provided a background that destabilised the optimism with which the decade…

A former Fulton County jail guard has been indicted on federal civil rights charges

The acting chief of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while sidelining certain racial and gender discrimination cases and quashing protections for transgender workers

The NAACP broke from a 116-year tradition by declining to invite President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump activated 4,000 National Guard troops on June 10, 2025, to quell protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids – without the normal request from the state. He has also sent to Los Angeles hundreds of U.S. Marines, with the goal of protecting the unprecedented deportation operations by…

Social movements have long included some form of direct conflict with authorities. The key is whom the public blames for clashes

In a time when voices are louder than ever and causes are passionately defended in streets across the globe, protests have become a symbol of collective power. Marches, sit-ins, and demonstrations have helped change history, from civil rights to environmental awareness. But not all protests are created equal—some cross a…