In a brief supporting a dismissal of the suit, former civil rights attorneys say the Justice Department’s use of a statute is ...

Sri Lankan activist Ruki Fernando wins Sweden’s 2026 Per Anger Prize for his fearless advocacy for human rights, justice, and ...

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MITROPOULOS JOINS US NOW WITH A DEEPER LOOK AT THESE ALLEGATIONS. ARIELLE. WE’LL SEE. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE SAYS THAT BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2024, THIS WOMAN, DIANA DURGIN, PULLED OUT A GUN ON ...

Elliott Chapman, a longtime member of the church, recalled being just 20 years old when King visited. “It was a new feeling, a new way of life,” Chapman said. “It was almost giving us more strength in ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Martin Luther King protege, built a reputation of his own through his years as a civil rights leader, political activist and presidential candidate (twice). "I knew him well.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84. The icon of the Civil Rights Movement and beyond was ...

The state agency that investigates civil rights complaints is legally permitted to take as long as it needs to do so, even if the probe takes several years, the Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled.

The indictment against journalist Don Lemon and eight others will likely be dismissed because it hinges on a charge that is viewed as so constitutionally flawed that the Justice Department's Civil ...

On Sept. 30, 1962, a mob of about 2,000 white supremacists descended on the University of Mississippi campus, many of them armed with shotguns and pistols. Their rioting over the admission of James ...

In a recent interview, President Trump said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in white people being “very badly treated.” The 1964 Civil Rights act outlawed discrimination based on race, ...

The Civil Right Division of the Department of Justice was created in 1957 to act as the federal government’s independent investigative and enforcement mechanism for civil rights law in the United ...