As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

TALLAHASSEE — Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a long-serving legislator and “trailblazing” civil-rights leader from Central Florida, died after complications from knee surgery, her family announced Thursday.

The Rev Al Sharpton, the fiery, high-profile political and civil rights activist ... and other community leaders went outside Costco, 1055 Hudson St., and addressed issues surrounding the Trump ...

Sharpton became notable for his response to injustice in New York City streets. The civil rights leader led a march through Howard Beach, Queens, after a white mob beat three Black men.

The landscape of civil rights activism has evolved significantly since the 1960s, with a new generation of leaders emerging to address contemporary challenges. These modern champions combine ...

Civil rights leaders say in each case, officers may have used excessive force. "What we wanted to emphasize is we were concerned about what we saw," said Tim Stevens, the chairman and CEO of B-PEP.

Civil rights leaders are still grappling with the weight of President Donald Trump’s swift and sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion and rolling back decades-old ...

Civil rights leaders Marc Morial and Janai Nelson discuss why Trump symbolizes "the most significant contradiction" to what MLK stood for, plus how civil rights leaders are mobilizing ahead of the ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday, more than a dozen human and civil rights leaders gathered for a roundtable in downtown DC to address President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders regarding the federal ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil ...