Thaddeus Stevens was as an ardent abolitionist who championed civil rights for decades. In 1813, a young...
Civil Rights
Law enforcement agencies typically need to provide a compelling reason to collect and store data about members...
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the struggles facing the U.S. today. By Dr....
Highlighting the trends that have defined us from the 1920s to now. Presentation by The History Channel...
From one of our top historians, a groundbreaking story of policing and “riots” that shatters our understanding...
Republican-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. are enacting new restrictions on voter participation that target non-whites. America...
Most Americans want to make voting easier, not harder. We need to pass the For the People...
A record number of people voted in the 2020 presidential election. Now, GOP legislators across the country...
The For the People Act would make our democracy more inclusive and block efforts by state legislators...
Although LGBTQ+ people in every region of the world face marginalization and repression, human rights have steadily...
The theft of our democracy doesn’t happen in a violent coup but in a thousand legalistic cuts...
The For the People Act aims to fix an election system that pushes people of color to...
We’re getting an up-close look at how law enforcement treats left and right protests differently. By Basav...
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as...
The civil rights that various groups have fought for within the United States. Introduction What is the...
Nonreligious voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in the November presidential race and were key in several down-ballot state...
The rise of secular voters is providing a potent counterbalance to the religious right. candidates have been...
Voters in small states actually have more Electoral College votes per capita than larger, more diverse states....
In the South, electoral politics remained a parade of electoral fraud, voter intimidation, and race-baiting. Just as...
Jim Crow states passed statutes severely regulating social interactions between the races. Jim Crow was the name...
They ultimately achieved significant concessions for fair employment practices for African Americans in San Francisco. By Ammar...
Events during the movement included the Occupation of Alcatraz, the Trail of Broken Treaties, the Occupation of...
Not only was the children’s march relegated to lesser news, it was delivered without many pictures. Images...
Independent recordings of police officers are critical for ensuring police accountability. By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz...
The United States Constitution has two important features that are vital in the consideration of its First...
There are signals that certain civil liberties are in peril. Since the turn of the New Year,...
Mary McLeod Bethune founded a college, defied the Klan, advised presidents, and was a fierce warrior for...
In their last days, the suffragist pioneers looked back and left us their story in letters. “It...
As people lost hope of reuniting as a society with common interests and goals, many focused on...
A long heritage of black preachers who played an important role for enslaved people shaped Martin Luther...