H. Rap Brown, a vocal leader of the Black Power movement who was charged with inciting a riot on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in ...
President John F. Kennedy conceived of the office in the early 1960s, saying the federal government should have experts who ...
A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted ...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, aka H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, has died at 82. Al-Amin ...
The chaos seemed to reach a turning point on April 13, 1873 – Easter Sunday – when dozens of Black people were slaughtered by ...
The Civil Rights Division was created to protect the disempowered. Under Trump, it’s working to dismantle gun restrictions.
The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans. Long ...
During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...
On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard in “all ...
The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...
Americans have fallen short in remembering the full power and promise of the civil rights movement in the 21st century, as politicians and commentators — especially those on the right — substitute ...
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