Black clergy in Chicago say they enthusiastically support Mayor Brandon Johnson during a press conference at the historic Quinn Chapel AME Church.

Brandon Johnson brags about diversity. The feds launch an investigation.

Nearly five years since the police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd sparked fundamental changes in the way ...

Many of the participants in recent Chicagoland protests against the Trump administration’s policies are senior citizens.

The 50501 movement could build a national protest strategy in Chicago by pushing for legal safeguards against the rising ...

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its ...

The Department of Justice is investigating progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ... race” in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964. It cited remarks Johnson made ...

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell sued the Chicago Police Department and the county in 2020 alleging they were railroaded as teenagers and falsely confessed in 2003 to the murder and burning of ...

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights ...

Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School ... "I grew up in the wake of the civil rights movement where we celebrated all the heroes in the progress and the gains ...