WASHINGTON, D.C. (WCIV) — Rep. James E. Clyburn (D, S.C.-06) delivered opening remarks at the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Land’s legislative hearing Tuesday, advocating for ...

Two more former West Virginia correctional officers have pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights violation in the death of a man who died less than a day after being booked into a jail The Latest ...

Advocates vow to fight voter suppression before and after ballots are cast. Civil rights leaders believe that a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday could lay the framework for ...

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

Jaguars owner Shad Khan is building a luxury Four Seasons on the St. Johns River, long after other grand hotels once filled ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which recently marked its 60th anniversary, transformed the United States by paving the way for a more equitable society. Its passage outlawed discrimination on the ...

Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone. Civil rights — who gets to have them and who doesn’t — have been a central contest of American politics from ...

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Kennedy's younger brother, who served as his attorney general, shared the chief executive's hesitation to act in the civil rights arena. But savage violence against the Freedom Riders began to ...

The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 years ago, filed a $100-million federal lawsuit on Friday that accuses the FBI, CIA and New York Police ...

which eviscerated the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and locked in the legality of Jim Crow for three generations. But he also includes them in part, I suspect, because they echo his central thesis ...