A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime ...

It has also built itself into a civil rights behemoth with a glossy headquarters ... and their researchers have become the go-to experts for quotes on those topics. The SPLC’s hate group and ...

Disparate impact liability holds that policies that are neutral on their face can violate civil rights laws if they impose artificial barriers that disadvantage different demographic groups.

The Rosa Parks Museum and the National Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham recall the efforts that demolished segregation and won Black people legal and social equality. To visit these places is ...

The latest target in Trump’s war on civil rights is a legal theory known as “disparate impact.” An April 23 executive order calls for eliminating the theory “to the maximum degree possible.” ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Ourania Thimmhardy filed a federal lawsuit alleging civil rights violations by deputies. Video shows ex-deputy Gurich shoving Thimmhardy during jail release in 2024. Family seeks reforms ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Norfolk native and civil rights trailblazer Jerrauld C. Jones died Saturday at the age of 70, his family announced. Jones became one of the first African-American students to ...

Grandmother of Juneteenth Opal Lee photographed at her new Fort Worth home, January 16, 2025. Lee was named the 2021 "Texan of the Year" by The Dallas Morning News. In 2024, she was awarded the ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams brought new leadership to the Parks Department with the appointment of Iris Rodriguez-Rosa as the new commissioner. In a significant transition, Rodriguez-Rosa moves ...

“We will fully enforce civil rights laws in a way that satisfies the ends of justice, not politicization,” she said in a statement to The Washington Post. The review includes cases and reform ...