
Strip clubs instituting arbitrary, sexist policies against women isn’t an uncommon phenomenon. For every story of a…

Sunday marked exactly 64 years since Rosa Parks sparked a movement by refusing to yield her seat for a white…
Today in 1957, nine African American students were escorted by federal troops through a screaming white crowd into…

Fifty five years ago this month, a group of teenage girls were locked in a 19th-century stockade in the Georgia…
Linda Brown, who in 1951 became the leading figure in the Brown v. Board of Education case, died on Sunday in…
In 1981, Sandra Bundy won her court case Bundy v. Jackson, which established that sexual harassment in the…
On Monday, a Manhattan US Appeals court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects people from discrimination…
The Department of Education confirmed with BuzzFeed on Monday that they will not look at complaints from transgender…
Civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory, who passed away on Saturday at age 84, will be missed.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled that LGBT employees are protected from workplace discrimination…
A 38-year-old Long Island man named Patrick O’Meara has been charged with a hate crime after assaulting two…
The Trump administration—not a big fan of injunctions lately or being told what to do, period—is also obviously fine…
Today, President-elect Donald Trump met Martin Luther King III—one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s sons—at Trump Tower.…
Citing Russian interference in the election, civil rights hero and Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. John Lewis …
And now for some good news: on Thursday, President Obama named five new national monuments, establishing his legacy…

Today’s confirmation hearing for Sen. Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General appointment was unusual in that three sitting…

Mavis Staples, the gospel and R&B legend who was a prominent voice of the civil rights movement, was one of the…

In a video released on Monday, Republican North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory ended almost a full month of political…