As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

1866, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation’s first civil rights law. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared freed Black Americans were citizens entitled to ...

The attorneys said that because the Civil Rights Act of 1866 excluded "Indians not taxed" from the legislation, the 14th Amendment also was meant to exclude Indians. Next, the Justice Department ...

Environmental justice advocates’ work just got even more difficult, but powerful legal statutes leave them with some support.

Johnson allegedly said, “What is that goddamned n**ger preacher doing to me? We gave him the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we gave him the Voting Rights Act of 1965, we gave him the War on Poverty.

Liberty Theater was built in 1921 and is located in the heart of downtown Amarillo. The theater spent years as the only ...

The International Monetary Fund has inquired about the accountability mechanism of civil servants having discrepancies in their asset declarations, as the overwhelming majority of the government ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act is back in the headlines amid attempts to keep noncitizens from registering to vote, but the impacts to voting rights could be impact married ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the time has come for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe” because the U.S. may no longer be counted on to support Europe The Latest ...

Five third-year students at the Govt College of Nursing in Kottayam, Kerala have been arrested for severely ragging their juniors. A video shows the seniors laughing as they torture a junior using ...

The human rights situation across the Democratic Republic of Congo remains dire, with internal conflicts and poor governance contributing to a severe food crisis and the internal displacement of 5 ...