Emma Tenayuca was still a teenager when she started organizing for equality in her native San Antonio, Texas. Only a few years later, at the age of twenty-one, she led 12,000 pecan shellers — mostly ...

On the pages of National Review and, after 1966, on Firing Line, Buckley pioneered the do-your-own-research rhetorical style: ...

With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were ...

He remained active in civil rights organizations and served on the board of his alma mater, as well as for Bennett College and the University of North Carolina. He died on January 9, 2014, at age 73.

But when protests are visually dominated by Mexican flags, these broader coalitions understandably feel excluded from what should be an American civil rights movement.

As immigration raids continued across the country, a curfew went into effect Tuesday night in Los Angeles, the epicenter of protests that spread coast to coast against the detention and removal of ...

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

The American Civil Liberties Union and its partners have a separate ongoing challenge to the Trump executive order and recently filed legal briefing in a federal court of appeals. Oral argument is ...

Imposing such a litmus test for nonpolitical positions runs afoul of the nearly 150-year-old federal Civil Service law, the 1939 Hatch Act and the First Amendment.

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

Hugo Aguilar, an Indigenous rights defender and former advisor to the Zapatista guerrilla movement, will be Mexico's first Supreme Court chief justice elected at the ballot box, official results ...

Hugo Aguilar, an Indigenous rights defender and former advisor to the Zapatista guerrilla movement, will be Mexico's first Supreme Court chief justice elected at the ballot box, official results ...