This year’s most-read ACLU stories trace a nation grappling with military overreach, attacks on the press, threats to ...

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the '50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...

A leading Muslim civil rights group in the U.S. has sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his order designating it and another ...

The Trump administration stoked outrage on Thursday after revelations it was scrapping commemorative quarter designs ...

On the cusp of turning 100 on Saturday, TV legend Dick Van Dyke gets the “American Masters” treatment in the new PBS film ...

John Porten, former director of research at USD's Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, says grassroots work on issues such as homelessness, hunger and dirty beaches can strengthen community ...

Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement,” by Tanisha C. Ford, (Amistad: New York), ...

A new documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. revisits the longstanding relationship between Black and Jewish Americans.

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding its exploration of the country’s racial dynamics despite a surge of government resistance. The papers of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...