TEANECK — The U.S. Department of Education confirmed Friday that it has opened a federal civil rights investigation of Teaneck schools. The school district was added on Jan. 5 to the U.S. Department ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Selma, and Shomari Figures, D-Mobile, have introduced legislation prohibiting the sale of federally owned historic properties without congressional approval. Titled the ...

Scroll below through the list of our Women of the Century from Civil Rights, and it’s no surprise that women were granted the right to vote. The activists on this list – from Gloria Steinem to Dorothy ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

Activists, athletes, actors, and preachers with sometimes-fiery presentation skills are just a few of the people who've communicated the message of civil rights to the masses. When many people think ...

Ashley Smith, executive director of Black Soil KY, said she received no official communication from UK prior to the list being released. Black Soil KY is a nonprofit agribusiness that invests in Black ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of the Civil ...