The U.S. federal agency that enforces workplace civil rights is suing a regional Coca-Cola bottler for sex discrimination, alleging the company discriminated against male employees by only inviting ...

Three civil‑rights workers disappeared in Neshoba County in 1964. Their murders exposed the depth of racial terror in Mississippi — and forced the nation to confront it.

A conservative, education nonprofit filed the initial lawsuit, accusing the LA Unified School District of racial ...

U.S. President Donald Trump embraces Forlesia Cook, a grandmother who lost her grandson to violence, during a Black History Month reception at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 18, ...

The American civil rights icon, Reverend Jesse Jackson, died on Feb. 17 at the age of 84. His advisor, James Zogby, a pollster and co-founder of the Arab American Institute, traveled with Jackson ...

What to know about Rev. Jesse Jackson, a central figure in the Civil Rights Movement and national politics for more than six decades.

President Donald Trump remembered Jackson as "a good man" and "force of nature," while former President Bill Clinton, in a joint statement with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, reflected ...

Florida’s lawmakers can allow SB 308 to become another symbolic gesture that goes nowhere — or they can act decisively to ...

Feb 18 (Reuters) - Among an outpouring of tributes following the death of ⁠U.S. ⁠civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, rights advocates vowed to continue ⁠his fight for racial justice and an inclusive ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

There are more Black senators than ever before, but a major Supreme Court ruling could reduce Black representation in the ...

In 1964, the United States was deeply divided. There was a backdrop of fear and grief. The nation was still reeling from the ...