The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment for civil rights, with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers leading the movement. But rollbacks of civil rights and racial justice ideals abound in ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Friday morning that it has opened investigations looking into the universities’ partnership with a nonprofit organization focused ...

The Trump administration is wielding the Justice Department’s power in new and, some say, extreme ways. It could mean a lasting shift in how the nation’s top law enforcement agency handles issues ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years. Addressing or even acknowledging racial ...

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Scholar Roger Berkowitz shares how Hannah Arendt saw civil disobedience as a collective and political act that renews democracy by holding power accountable to justice and constitutional principles.

Decades after his efforts changed the Minneapolis Fire Department, city leaders want to keep Ron Edwards' legacy alive.

On Tuesday, lawmakers unveiled a new statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns at the US Capitol, replacing one of Civil ...