But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights ...
The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women ...
LONDON — As a “little Jewish boy” growing up in postwar Britain, Simon Schama says he never felt physically unsafe walking the streets wearing a kippa. Nor, he says, were guards routinely posted at ...
A woman involved in a Hurst traffic stop in January is calling for accountability from the police and city leadership. Taneisha Thompson said she suffered injuries following the encounter. Her ...
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The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS ...
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Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...
The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate. A protege of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson fought on the front lines of the battle ...
ATLANTA (WSFA) - Tuskegee basketball head coach Benjy Taylor has reportedly hired renowned national civil rights attorney Harry Daniels after he was handcuffed and escorted off the court following ...