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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did more than nearly any other piece of ...

This month we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the single most influential pieces of ...

Sixty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, Black Americans are facing ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, it is clear that the right to vote is under attack and that we must defend and expand voting rights for all Americans.