Heather Heyer came to downtown Charlottesville with her friends to make a stand against white nationalists who converged on the Virginia college town to demand the city keep a statue honoring a Confederate war hero, her boss said on Sunday. The 32-year-old paralegal wanted to ...
Human rights groups said Tuesday that an activist from the Mapuche indigenous group in Argentina who went missing a week ago has been "forcibly disappeared" by military police. Santiago Maldonado, 27, was detained by state forces after joining in a protest march for Mapuche rights, ...
Civil rights groups on Wednesday accused the Trump administration of "changing course on a key civil rights issue" after reports that it was launching a special project to investigate whether college and university admissions programs discriminate against students based on race. The New York Times ...
Framed by authorities as an essential tool to fight terrorism, critics call out vague wording and warn of potential danger to civil liberties
Many American women stayed home from work, joined rallies or wore red Wednesday to demonstrate how vital they are to the U.S. economy, as International Women's Day was observed with a multitude of events around the world. The Day Without a Woman protest in the ...
Fusion pioneer Larry Coryell, one of the first guitarists to win an audience bringing a rock edge to the jazz guitar, has died. He was 73. The guitarist, who kept a busy recording and touring schedule and had concerts planned well into 2017, died of ...
Baltimore officials on Wednesday pledged to carry out sweeping police department reforms after a scathing U.S. Justice Department report found that officers in the majority-black city routinely violated the civil rights of black residents. Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, said ...
Julian Bond, a leading figure from the 1960s civil rights movement who served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People after a long career in politics, died Saturday, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was 75. Bond died ...
The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into the death of a black man who died of spinal injuries he suffered during an arrest that involved being transported in a police van. It's not uncommon for federal investigators to look into ...
The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old whose death in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked weeks of protests and ignited an intense national debate over how police treat African-Americans. But the government ...
Jim Brown stood alongside Muhammad Ali in the 1960s when the boxing champion protested going to Vietnam. An activist for 50 years, the Hall of Fame running back has never shied away from fighting for anything he's believed in. On Friday, the 78-year-old Cleveland Browns ...
Vodafone, one of the world's largest cellphone companies, revealed the scope of government snooping into phone networks Friday, saying authorities in some countries are able to directly access an operator's network without seeking permission. The company outlined the details in a report that is described ...
