One of those people was my great uncle and namesake, George C. Greenidge of Roxbury, Massachusetts (b.1916–d.1997).

Andrea Lucas, the Trump-appointed chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has set a new agenda for an agency ...

The DOJ letter sent to the Ohio State College of Medicine March 25 requests that it turn over admissions applicant data from ...

L ong before October 7, 2023, observers had already analyzed a ubiquitous, if informal, “Palestine exception” to free-speech norms and academic freedom on U.S. campuses. In the wake of the October 7 ...

Dr. Russ Wigginton is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 60 years ago on July 2, America has experienced great strides toward attaining ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...

The claim: Democrats held the nation’s longest filibuster for 75 days to attempt to prevent the passing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. When senators want to put the brakes on legislation, they talk.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting ...

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, is another salvo in a protracted battle between the administration of ...

City and county civil rights commissions may no longer protect Iowans from gender identity-based discrimination under a law ...