The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed decades of law that permitted citizens to discriminate against others just because of ...

Misericordia University hosted “The Dream Reimagined: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue” event in the Pauly Friedman Art Gallery on Wednesday. Speakers highlighted portions of the Civil Rights Movement ...

"This is not theoretical," Marc Morial said. "It's showing up in paychecks and classrooms, in courtrooms and communities." ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Please enjoy this excerpt from one of the most famous ...

“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carlos, the African American sprinter who raised his fist in a black power salute from the podium of the 1968 Olympics, once told me. “The beginning ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...

In 1955, at the age of 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before ...

President Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his administration’s racial politics, which rest on the belief that ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division established an office focused on the Second Amendment, a move that is being slammed by civil rights and racial justice leaders who decried the ...

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...