As a series of memorial services begin to pay respects to Jackson, a new generation of leaders works to preserve hard-fought civil rights gains.

The late reverend and civil rights icon died at the age of 84. Here's what we know about his final months.

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division established an office focused on the Second Amendment, a move that is being slammed by civil rights and racial justice leaders who decried the ...

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Oklahoma's new app, the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail, aims to preserve and educate the public on the state's rich civil rights history by connecting historic all-Black towns and key civil rights ...

Civil rights audits are often discussed in moments of crisis. But they can offer something proactive: a blueprint for embedding accountability into everyday operations.