The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Fayette County, Tennessee, alleging its Board of County Commissioners violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The board's ...

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Martin Luther King Jr. Commission hosted its annual 'Interfaith Prayer Breakfast' event at the Governor's Mansi ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

A DOJ division tasked with protecting basic rights is expected to shift its position on key social issues under Trump and, if ...

Martin Luther King was a prominent activist in the civil rights movement that started in America in the year 1955, this ...

“We have to decide, as a nation, do we want to allow that type of racialized political violence to be normalized," says Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of Lawyers' Committee for ...

This year marks six decades since the passing of seminal legislation in U.S. history — Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the ...

Among the thousands who fought for voting rights during the 1960s civil rights movement was Capitola resident Maria Gitin, ...

Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, ...

The Education Department has settled federal civil rights complaints against UCLA and four other University of California campuses related to Israel-Hamas war protests. UCLA was a hot spot, with ...