Civil rights leaders from around the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., Friday to protest book bans and rising attacks on ...

1963-- Civil rights leader Medgar Evers ... leaves four young black girls dead. 1964-- Congress passes Civil Rights Act declaring discrimination based on race illegal after 75-day long filibuster.

A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a long-running lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided ... into the fall of 1866 -- allowed to fruition by Andrew Johnson's administration -- the black codes ...

Two Arab anti-discrimination groups on Tuesday lodged a federal civil rights complaint against Rutgers ... “We abhor all forms of intolerance based on religion, national origin, race, ethnicity ...

Beloved Los Angeles pastor, civil rights leader and community activist Reverend Doctor Cecil Murray died Friday night. His family told KCAL News that he died after some health struggles.

Since our nation’s founding, discriminatory policies and laws have created an unequal system in which Black communities have had their civil rights and liberties denied and have been systemically ...

The Rev. Frederick Haynes III told The Associated Press that he submitted a letter with his resignation as head of the Chicago-based Rainbow ... The civil rights leader announced in July that ...

William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist and supporter ... movements in Africa and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Strickland also wrote about racism and capitalism for several outlets ...

Frederick Malkus Memorial Bridge after Gloria Richardson, the first woman leader of a grassroots civil rights organization outside of the South in the U.S. Snowden and the Caucus plan to discuss ...

But what the streaming service has not yet done, perhaps to its chagrin, is garner the ever-elusive best picture award at the ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers and actor Michelle Yeoh are among a diverse group of 19 people who have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from ...