civil rights

They say new police and surveillance powers could, if history is a guide, be used against Blacks and other people of color in the justice system, not the white rioters who stormed the Capitol.

Critics say President Trump constrained the Civil Rights Division from being as effective as it should. Business could look very different under the new incoming administration.

A 1938 law created "exploitative and discriminatory" job programs and should be phased out, marking a new milestone in the debate over "sheltered workshops," the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says.

This episode originally aired on June 18, 2020.In the summer of 1964 more than 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in a…

Proposed ideas include renaming the Edmund Pettus Bridge in honor of the late congressman and passing expanded voting rights legislation in his name.

This episode originally aired on June 18, 2020.In the summer of 1964, a mob of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in the tragic episode…

This episode originally aired on June 18, 2020.In the summer of 1964 more than 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in a…

In the summer of 1964 more than 20 members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers in a tragic episode of racial injustice that would…

A former national president of the League of Women Voters and a popular satellite radio host are this year's recipients of the Freedom Summer of '64...

Retired federal judge and local civil rights icon Nathaniel Jones has passed away.