The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit of Louisiana is hearing a case that has the power to potentially suppress the voting power for black voters in the state ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Black Americans encountered a series of political events that tested their resilience and commitment to justice.

Congress labeled the app’s Chinese ownership a national security risk and passed a law that would ban the social media ...

UN watchdog finds refugees and asylum seekers suffered deterioration of physical and mental health in offshore detention camps ...

The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

Republicans, led by Trump, have consistently hammered Democrats on the US-Mexico border, often using dehumanizing language that the United States was being “invaded.” The bill was named after Laken ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. committee found that Australia violated a human rights treaty by detaining a group of asylum ...

Four narrative shifts proven to get people of all parties to support progressive goals without compromising anyone’s values.

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

(Reuters) -American singer and songwriter Peter Yarrow, who found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, ...