Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

Jabaar’s newly published book We all want to change the world – My Journey through Social Justice Movements from the 1960s to ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

But the department’s Office for Civil Rights regional office in Chicago, which was responsible for Illinois and five other states, was one of seven abolished by President Donald Trump’s ...

After a nearly three-year legal battle, a Tennessee civil rights attorney will no longer be gagged from criticizing a private prison. The local federal court has scrapped a rule that restricted ...

A federal judge said that she had concerns about being “hoodwinked” by plans put forward in her courtroom Monday by a Trump appointee to rebuild three offices focused on civil rights oversight ...

the 1969 riots protesting a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar that marked the beginning of a new civil and human rights movement. DiMarco and Guggenheim use archival footage to re-create ...

A Denver pastor who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement passed away this week.

In an increasingly repressive environment, these proposals appear designed to obstruct justice, suppress dissent, and silence those advocating for accountability and human rights. These bills ...

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Sarah Sherman is giving her side of the Aimee Lou Wood “Saturday Night Live” beef. Back in April, “SNL” aired a parody of “The White Lotus” featuring Sherman as an extremely ...