Callais, effectively narrowing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act—thus making it harder to challenge voting maps that dilute ...

The passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act marked what many historians mark as the actual beginning of democracy in the US.

Leading scholar in the field of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “intersectionality,” which she has described as a “lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, ...

According to activist documentation, 28 people were arrested that day, four of whom — Hsiung, along with Aditya Aswani, Dean Wyrzykowski, and Melany Brieno — have been charged with conspiracy to ...

The Justice Department has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent civil rights organization, with several financial crimes. We discuss what the group is accused of and why it became a ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a name spelling. Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the ...

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In the latest episode of Everyday Injustice, host David Greenwald sits down with historian Professor Josh Clark Davis of the University of Baltimore to explore a critical but often overlooked ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Pierre Bienaimé : Here's your midday brief for Friday, March 20th. I'm Pierre ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

The late Cesar Chavez, one of the nation's most prominent labor rights leaders, has been accused of sexually abusing girls and women in the 1960s and 1970s, when he was at the forefront of a movement ...