As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Throughout history, Black women have been at the forefront of social movements, from the suffrage and civil rights movements ...

In honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the community came together Sunday afternoon to fill the Warren Ballrooms on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus with laughter, cheer and song. For the first ...

Gloria Marie James was born on February 4th, 1968. She has two brothers - Curt and Terry James. Gloria, who is of African American descent, spent the majority of her childhood and adulthood in ...

Gloria Campbell, who died Thursday at 94, was an icon of the local Civil Rights Movement, along with her husband, Bishop Lawrence Campbell Sr. They both led civil rights protests in Danville at ...

Gloria W. Campbell, once hailed as the matriarch of Danville’s Civil Rights Movement, died Thursday. She was 94. Her death was announced by Bibleway Cathedral, a church she co-founded with her ...

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos said. Another memo ...

The seal of the United States Department of Justice is seen on the building exterior of the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, New York City ...

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Immigrant and civil rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit against a birthright citizenship executive order signed by ...