It’s been 65 years since John F. Kennedy first spoke of America’s “New Frontier.” From there, he built a safety net, a civil ...

The deployments have spurred a debate over the legality of the administration’s use of federal police and the National Guard generally — and the role of Black cops and troops in carrying them out ...

Texas lawmakers approved a new congressional map this week at the behest of President Donald Trump, seeking to preserve his ...

Pennsylvania will not hand over its statewide voter registration list, including personal information such as driver’s ...

Watch the trailer for 'True North,' a documentary premiering at TIFF about the Black liberation movement that surged in ...

Congress voted to gut Medicaid and “defund” Planned Parenthood to fund President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. We won’t ...

Minister and leading civil rights activist, the Rev. H.K. Matthews, died Monday evening. He was 97. Matthews, who was born in ...

While we have made some progress towards equal civil rights, we have not yet succeeded in creating a land where liberty and ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again.

A month ago, I noted that the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had sent demands to a bunch of states for copies of the voter files.  These letters were pretty unusual.  I didn’t think DOJ’s ostensible ...