Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

Rosalie Silberman Abella, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, offered a wide-ranging exploration of the differences between American and Canadian constitutional jurisprudence when she ...

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson leaves behind a movement that lacks a single unifying leader, but his legacy of inclusion could help it carry on.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Seventy House Democrats sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon demanding answers on the department’s backlog in civil rights cases. The Democrats, led by Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.), ...

In early 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally arrested civil rights attorney Sandra May Watkins in her own driveway — but she revealed she had been recording them and the ...

US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told reporters on Friday that the Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the intensive ...

The Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into the killing of anti-ICE protester Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed ...

The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old Minneapolis protester who was killed last weekend by two federal ...

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 ...