City Council passed a resolution Thursday to make March 17, 2025 “Bayard Rustin Day" on what would have been the trailblazer's 113th birthday.

North Carolina judge and state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin posed in Confederate military garb while attending ...

Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña, the respective Oscar winners for Anora (Best Actress) and Emilia Pérez (Best Supporting ...

National Civil Rights Museum’s Director of History and Curatorial Services said “Without Bayard Rustin, there is no “I Have a ...

Civil rights leaders draw historical parallels Janai Nelson, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, said in a statement that the White House's argument that abolishing the department would ...

In 1955, she married Vasco A. Smith Jr., a dentist who also became a civil rights leader and the first Black elected county commissioner in Memphis. Maxine Smith taught at Prairie View A&M ...

Sacramento officials, community leaders, and advocates gathered on Tuesday to denounce harmful policies restricting transgender rights and reaffirm their commitment to civil rights. "Every trans ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been ...

She taught me to be optimistic and relentless, and that fighting for civil rights is the responsibility of all of us.