civil rights

A federal court in New York dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Christian wedding photographer who refused to photograph same-sex weddings

A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955

France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War II spy and civil rights activist into its Pantheon

A Florida circuit court judge has cleared the charges against four young Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago

Here is a timeline of key dates related to the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, and the prosecution of the men originally said to be his killers.

The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement arm is investigating allegations of racial and gender discrimination at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, the school district confirmed Wednesday.

The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

A prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago.

A coalition of civil rights groups releasing a report on hate crime laws says the protections against bias-motivated violence are inconsistent and lack uniformity nationally

A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access

A San Diego-based artist is celebrating Civil Rights movements and natural hair with a new design that champions them both with one word to describe them: power.

Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.

Deborah Archer, a law professor at New York University with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president

A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Watch the tribute to John Lewis at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1913 with thousands of other women for a parade spearheaded by one of the country’s leading suffragists, Alice Paul. Wells was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago that she founded two months before. At the rehearsal, she learned that the white organizers...

Former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis Thursday, remembering the work the civil rights icon completed and warning that there is much more work to be done.

Tybre Faw, a 12-year-old boy who Rep. John Lewis befriended two years ago, read the late congressman’s favorite poem at his memorial.