The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...

The Justice Department froze civil-rights litigation to allow the incoming Trump administration to review the agencies ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

A former Stanford University history professor who saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump.

More than a dozen human and civil rights leaders met downtown for an emergency strategy session to oppose Trump's rollbacks ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...