Tag: civil rights

Throughout history gun control laws have been used against people of color.

Now, 50 years later, a coalition has formed anew to organize poor people in the U.S. into what King called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty and forge meaningful change.

This isn’t the first time the world of professional sports has entered the fight for civil rights and racial justice.

Previously unannounced directives will limit the Department of Justice’s use of a storied civil rights enforcement tool, and loosen the Department of Education’s requirements on investigations.

Trump has made clear his priorities: Benefit the most comfortable Americans and stick it to the most vulnerable.

Let’s use our time well to organize and mobilize a protest that demonstrates our unified call for economic, racial and environmental justice.

Whose streets? (Then and now)

“It is time for justice for working people,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told the Nissan factory workers.

EXCLUSIVE: NAACP President Cornell William Brooks and other members of the civil rights group rally outside Senator Jeff Sessions’ office and hold a sit-in.

A 2015 Center investigation found that the office had never made a formal finding of discrimination in 22 years.