As part of our on-going power series, we explore the most impactful Civil Rights activists in American history, from Fannie Lou Hammer to Fred Hampton. 16 of the Most Powerful Civil Rights ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images ...

No film seems quite as relevant or crucial in regard to today’s battle for equality as “Selma,” the biopic that traces the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and fellow activists in the Southern ...

The power to cut off funds is important for civil rights, but Trump is abusing it by Marianne Engelman-Lado, Leslie Proll, Sasha Samberg-Champion, and Jocelyn Samuels, Opinion Contributors - 05/09 ...

Molly Ball: No, the Voting Rights Act is not dead. M ore than 30 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein argued for understanding “the expressive function of ...

AI Is the New Civil Rights Frontier: Loren Douglass on Wealth, Politics & Power It all started on Monday when Red shared a couple of since-deleted AI images of her and MLK Jr on social media .

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernice Johnson Reagon, a musician and scholar who used her rich, powerful contralto voice in the service of the American Civil Rights Movement and human rights struggles ...

A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images ...