It will recall the role the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee played in the national civil rights movement. It will honor committee leader Gloria Richardson and her lieutenant, Fred Jackson ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is stepping into a new phase in his career, winning a Pulitzer Prize and maybe a second Tony while ...

In certain ways, Baldwin becomes an incubator for all of this. But other people do too – Gloria Richardson, the civil rights activist from Cambridge, Md., Lorraine Hansberry, the playwright. And so it ...

Unbeknownst to Dale Gibbs, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the killings under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act ... She and her roommate, Gloria Mayhorn, got ...

Shakeups at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have put more attorneys on the job hunt, recruiters say, with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but ...

Many strong locals advocated and fought for racial equality in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, and a battle ground in the national civil rights movement. From nurses to shop owners ...

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the broader ...

Dozens of career officials working in the department’s storied civil rights division have left in a mass exodus of prosecutors and staff. Trump’s new chief of the storied division, Harmeet ...

These cases are among the 12,000 civil rights complaints that were pending at the US Department of Education when President Trump took office in January. They were filed by New England parents and ...

DENVER — A federal commission is launching an investigation of alleged antisemitism at three colleges and universities in Colorado that share the Auraria Campus in Denver. The review is coming ...

It’s an example, according to whistleblowers, of the type of work that is now paused after the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was dissolved in late March. The ...

DENVER — Reverend James D. Peters, Jr., a civil rights activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away Saturday. He was 92 years old. His death was announced by community leader ...