While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

After the U.S. Department of Justice froze civil rights actions, Hazleton officials didn’t raise their hopes too high that ...

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the ...

There were tears, yells and a call of “out of order” but by the end of the day Virginia’s Senate on Tuesday passed three ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act. The state asked a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder to ...

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

Attorneys in DOJ’s Civil Rights Division voted on Jan. 9 and its Environment and Natural Resources Division on Jan. 10 to ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...

As states around the country have been passing voter suppression laws or similar policies, work continues to be done to ...

The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would amend Title IX — the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex ...