In what will likely be remembered as one of history’s greatest ironies, America’s first black president has led the country during a time of some of the greatest civil rights setbacks of the modern ...

Collin County commissioners recently voted to move from electronic voting machines to hand-marked paper ballots. Voting rights activists say hand-marked ballots have ...

A two-year audit of Facebook's civil rights record found "serious setbacks" that have marred the social network's progress on matters such as hate speech, misinformation, and bias. The audit's leader, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The exterior of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on Dec. 19, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The Justice Department ...

Even after seeing a video of this Maryland first grader, injured when he was secluded in a small room at school, state lawmakers were reluctant to ban the practice. Credit: Photo illustration: The ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A Montgomery-based Civil Rights Era newspaper has received a historical marker honoring its coverage of historical events. Ellen Lake wrote for Harvard University’s newspaper ...

In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King left their single-family home in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood and moved into an apartment on Chicago’s west side. Their goal? To draw ...