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[ad_1] This story was originally published by The 19th and reprinted with permission. At a national park in Virginia on Monday, President Joe Biden announced that people...
[ad_1] Racism is often analyzed as a system of oppression that disadvantages people of color across various areas of life. Award-winning investigative reporter Tracie McMillan offers...
[ad_1] RIO DE JANEIRO — A U.S. congressional committee released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X, offering a glimpse...
[ad_1] CNN — Here’s a look at the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The riots stemmed from the acquittal of four white Los Angeles Police Department...
[ad_1] Maya Angelou, celebrated poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, once held a job as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Angelou’s stint as a streetcar...
[ad_1] click to enlarge Lee DeVito Activists protest Line 5 at 2021 rally along the Detroit River. This coverage is made possible through a partnership with...
[ad_1] NEW YORK — A federal judge in Texas has ordered a 55-year-old U.S. agency that caters to minority-owned businesses to serve people regardless of race,...
[ad_1] The Detroit Police Department is standing by its controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection system following a leak revealing the locations of its sensors in cities across...
[ad_1] A D.C. police sergeant pleaded guilty Friday to violating the civil rights of a man found sleeping in his car in Northeast in 2021. A...
[ad_1] Michael Smart chuckled as he thought back to their banishment. Truthfully he couldn’t say for sure what the problem had been, why it was that...
[ad_1] CNN — Here’s a look at the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama. Throughout March of 1965, a group of demonstrators faced violence as...
[ad_1] click to enlarge Shutterstock Studio 8 Hair Lab in Traverse City sued the state, saying it has the right to discriminate against people based on...
[ad_1] Colorado civil rights attorney Kevin Williams died this week after 26 years of fighting to improve the lives of people with disabilities. He was 57....
[ad_1] If you worry about your own screen time, just think about the young people in your life. The amount of time they spend consuming media...
[ad_1] NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Target says it will stop selling a product dedicated to Civil Rights icons after a now-viral TikTok spotlighted...
[ad_1] The Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday is always on the third Monday in January, but many Americans see the civil rights leader’s name year-round...
[ad_1] This is an adapted excerpt from “School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics and the Battle for Public Education” by Laura Pappano. Copyright 2024. Excerpted with permission by...
[ad_1] Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation ends the shortest tenure in the university’s history — six months. It’s not a coincidence that the record is...
[ad_1] BERKELEY, Calif. — Police officers in riot gear removed activists from Berkeley’s People’s Park and crews began placing double-stacked shipping containers to wall off the...
[ad_1] Elected officials are pushing university presidents to categorically silence student speech on salient political issues. This runs afoul of the values of academic freedom and...