Civil rights

Maryland congressman Elijah Cummings compared the "send her back" chants at a recent rally for President Donald Trump to the civil rights desegregation era of the 1960s, declaring the president a "racist" after years of giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Civil courts are being used to strip people of their meager assets and keep them beholden to those with power and means. This has to change.

The Baton Rouge coroner's office has ruled that Sadie Roberts-Joseph death from suffocation was a homicide.

It's not the first time the archbishop has attempted to strong-arm a Catholic school into firing its LGBTQ+ faculty members.

The chorus marked a subtle shift in what has been a remarkably collegial race between the Democratic hopefuls, who have mostly avoided criticizing one another and focused their ire on Trump.

There are 14 members on the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.

Rayshawn Warren's family has claimed he was in a vegetative state by the police's heavy handed approach to his arrest.

Elizabeth Holtzman, the youngest woman elected to Congress in 1972, unseated a long-term incumbent, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did last year.

"He touched the soul with his voice and was a quiet leader in the arts," his daughter Timolin said.

"If under the Constitution we compensate people because we take their property, why wouldn't you compensate people who actually were property?" Julian Castro argued.

The Alabama senator sees unsettling echoes of America's racist past in the Trump era. His new book is a wake-up call with a powerful message: Never forget.

"Today, we say to Donald Trump: We are not going back to more bigotry, discrimination and division," the Vermont senator said.

"There's no way to look at [MLK's] history and align it with this administration," Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, told CNN.

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Many said the move was intended to erase the recognition of transgender Americans.

The Turkish government voted to rename the street on which a future U.S. embassy will sit after American civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Texas state Representative Beto O'Rourke appears in a now-viral video responding to a Houston town hall question about NFL players kneeling during the national anthem.

The outrage was so widespread, Vice President Mike Pence condemned the vandalism.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and communications director Candace Owens were mired in millennial mayhem as they claimed an "Antifa" protest broke up their otherwise "peaceful" breakfast in Philadelphia on Monday morning.

It has been nearly one year since the deadly "Unite the Right" rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.

"This resistance towards Trump is a resistance towards the larger U.S. government that has continued to undermine communities most marginalized," Khan-Cullors says.

The movement first began in response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

Republican operative Roger Stone wrote to Trump a year ago requesting a posthumous pardon for Garvey.

"I think people think this kind of thing is taking place in recent days, but it's not. It's an everyday thing," Darren Martin said.

Trump has previously slammed the removal of such monuments, calling them "beautiful."

During an appearance before a House committee, the education secretary was also grilled about the latest deadly school shooting.

"Employers have to be aware of the consequences of certain language policies."

U.S. history books and documentaries that tell the story of lynching in the U.S. have focused on black male victims, to the exclusion of women.

The Republican Party, with its foundation now in the solid South, has done all it can to drag the country back into the nineteenth century through egregious voter suppression, mass incarceration, and financial and economic deprivation.

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