In rounds of free-flowing meetings on Capitol Hill, activists and lawmakers divvied up outreach strategies and coordinated ...

February is Black History Month, a time to reflect on the people and places that shaped the fight for civil rights. Across ...

The rule, titled “Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability in Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Financial Assistance,” updates Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 by setting new, ...

When Tarique Rahman, the son of a former prime minister of Bangladesh, returned to the country in December after 17 years of ...

Section two of the Voting Rights Act allows plaintiffs to sue states for drawing districts that dilute the power of minority ...

Notes: The Dalai Lama won his Grammy in an especially diverse field of nominees which also included comedian Trevor Noah (who hosted the telecast), Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, former ...

T HE FEDERAL government’s assault on Minneapolis continues but, for the past few days, it is Donald Trump’s shock-and-awe campaign to rid America of illegal immigrants that has seemed under siege.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Eastern Europe, shifting global orders have been a lived experience for decades. Just over thirty years ago, the end of ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...