The court Supreme Court is telling us that self-confessed discrimination is the only kind that’s forbidden.

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson is known for his disingenuously performative political stunts. He took it too far again ...

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over ...

Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental piece of legislation that forever changed the nature of race and gender in American ...

Demonstrators wave the American flag during a civil rights march in Jackson, Miss. on June 17, 1963. Black women’s contributions to human’s rights history are too often overlooked in our nation’s ...

On Thursday in Los Angeles, prominent civil rights and labor leaders called for a stronger coalition between Black and Latino ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal ...