While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

WASHINGTON − Moments after Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a farewell address to his staff, Kristen Clarke ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were ...

E. Lavonia Allison, a civil rights activist and local political force, has died at 94. Allison died Tuesday “peacefully, surrounded by love,” her son announced around midnight. “Dr. Allison ...