The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

Other countries on the watchlist include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan, and Serbia.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-Ill ...

Authorities have removed U.S. immigrants from detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as a federal court in Washington weighs ...

A local community activist wants to honor the work of civil rights photographer James Karales, who grew up in Canton.

Iowa has became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code. Republican Gov.

She was president of the national N.A.A.C.P. in the early 1990s and headed the organization’s New York State Conference from ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

Hazel Dukes, a longtime civil rights activist and president of the NAACP New York State Conference died Saturday, she was 92.

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...