The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system

Washington (AFP) - Dan Smith, an American civil rights activist and son of a former slave has died aged 90, his wife told AFP Thursday.

Jean McGuire will never walk alone in Franklin Park again after she was attacked there by a knife-wielding stranger nearly a week ago.

A 91-year-old civil rights activist and education pioneer who was stabbed while walking her dog in a Boston park last week says she no longer feels safe walking alone

A new biopic about the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year old Black boy whose lynching in Mississippi in 1955 catalyzed the U.S. civil rights movement, is being promoted as a tribute to Black women and Black mothers who are continuing her legacy and fight for justice, equality and equity

A 91-year-old education equity pioneer and civil rights activist who was stabbed while walking her dog in a Boston park has released her first public statement since the attack, keeping the focus on her lifetime work of helping children

Spanish authorities failed to uphold domestic and international law in returning to Morocco nearly 500 migrants following a mass border crossing in which at least 23 people died, the country's civil rights ombudsman said in an interim report on Friday.

LOS ANGELES — Danielle Deadwyler vividly recalls what went through her mind when she learned that she had landed the lead role in "Till," a new film centered on civil rights advocate Mamie Till-Mobley and her fight for justice following the brutal slaying of her son Emmett Till in the…

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson turned 81 last week, and will celebrate at a birthday gala on Friday. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, he told the Chicago Sun-Times he has no intention of taking it easy. Right now, his focus is on registering voters for the upcoming election.