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Carter challenges the narratives around public defense and said organizations like LAS need to be included in conversations about public safety policy. “People call out the criminal legal system and ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

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 ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

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 ...

As part of our on-going power series, we explore the most impactful Civil Rights activists in American history, from Fannie Lou Hammer to Fred Hampton. Men and women as young as mere college students ...