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

Mississippian civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded 19 recipients the prestigious medal at the White House. Hamer ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — When Roselins Sequera's family of seven finally reached the U.S. from Venezuela, they spent weeks at a ...

Iowa City’s Jim Larew's focus on environmental law marks a return to his youth, when modern environmentalism was born. He foresees a renaissance.

An iconic North Carolina building that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement is now officially a historic landmark. The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently ...

By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region' ...

A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, ...

In Florida, six of the nine existing incinerators are where the percentages of people of color are higher than the statewide ...

Meredith, who resists being called a civil rights leader, now lives in Mississippi's capital city of Jackson. He was born in ...

The Ahmedabad Civil Hospital has ordered a probe after ... The purported video shows a man wearing a t-shirt and trousers casually walking into the ICU ward and approaching an intubated patient.

The Department of Justice filed a civil complaint against CVS, alleging the pharmacy chain filled "unlawful" prescriptions for "dangerous and excessive quantities of opioids." Reuters The ...