On Nov. 6, 2021, the U.S. Navy christened and launched a ship in San Diego Bay named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk. Less than four years later, the Trump administration is ordering that ...

On that last visit, we landed on our documentary’s working title: “The Winter of Edmund White,” a nod to his age but not to his spirit, which remained impish, magnetic and razor sharp.

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 and discriminatory — presumably against white people. He signed his own ...

There is a list of other possible name changes of ships named after prominent women and civil rights leaders, a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly tells NPR.

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Some civil rights leaders are challenging a decision to strip a high school track star of her state title because of how she celebrated her win. In a nod to a former Olympian, 16-year-old Clara ...

The U.S. Navy may rename ships named for prominent civil rights and other American leaders like Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Harriet Tubman, according to a report from CBS News.

Wilde also demanded Swan a nationally known minister, civil rights leader, and president of the Greater Springfield National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, “make him a burger ...

To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...

Civil rights leaders held a rally on State Street Thursday to protest Target. It was in response to Target scaling back its diversity and inclusion efforts earlier this year.