civil rights

SELMA, Ala.—The body of civil rights icon John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday, decades after his "Bloody Sunday" beating there drew a national spotlight to the struggle ...

Charles Evers, the older brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, died at home of natural causes ...

Commentary What is going on in this country? When did we, the majority, stop speaking up for ourselves? ...

The Justice Department (DOJ) has created a new online tool to allow members of the public to report ...

Commentary All my life, I have dismissed paranoids on the right (“America is headed to communism”) and the ...

The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King in the U.S. civil rights movement of ...

“The 1619 Project” published by New York Times Magazine has been described by several Civil War scholars as ...

Commentary This week each year we as a nation stop to celebrate the birth of the 20th century ...

The U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office launched a new initiative designed to help schools, educators, and ...

Commentary This column might win me no fans on college campuses, but there is something that must be ...

To settle a civil rights lawsuit that was backed by the Trump administration, the University of Michigan has ...

A 13-year-old boy has been swept into a federal civil rights lawsuit against a Texas school board, after ...

At the Turning Point USA Teen Student Action Summit, we sit down with David Harris Jr, founder and ...

HONG KONG—Hong Kong authorities have barred a pro-democracy lawmaker from running in a local election for "implicitly" supporting ...

U.S. Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke has added the historic home of attorney A.P. Tureaud Sr. to the ...

Eric T. Schneiderman, the Attorney General of New York state, has opened a civil rights inquiry of the ...

Many police departments are reaching for body cameras to boost transparency as scrutiny over bias and brutality intensifies. ...

A former North Charleston police officer who has been indicted in U.S. court on a civil rights violation by ...

The city of Cleveland, Ohio, agreed on April 25 to pay $6 million to the family of Tamir ...

A judge has ordered the State of Oregon to pay the legal fees of a biker who was ...

Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman who helped thousands of slaves, will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, ...

A student at the University of Edinburgh was threatened with removal from the student council after she was ...

LAS VEGAS—A former Las Vegas police officer seen via body-camera video in a bloody confrontation while arresting a woman last ...

On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and ...

Muslim groups and civil rights activists across the nation are calling for greater transparency in an Obama administration ...

 The first black president of the United States is coming to Charleston to eulogize the victims of a ...