Jun.05 -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's inaction on President Trump's posts about George Floyd protests has angered his own staff and U.S. civil rights leaders. Vanita Gupta, president and chief executive...

The head of Norway's Nobel Committee, Breit Reiss-Andersen, announces that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to Belarusian human rights activist, Ales Bialiatski, Russian human rights organisation, Memorial, and Ukrainian human rights...

Legal experts say prosecutors have to prove officers J. Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao willfully violated George Floyd's constitutional rights.

Thousands of people converged on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and at the Washington Monument on Saturday to commemorate the forthcoming 50th anniversary of the March for Jobs and Freedom led by Dr. Martin Luther King. Crowds...

Human Rights Campaign and CNN will host a presidential town hall on October 10. Part of the event will likely focus on trans issues.

Newsy Tonight sits down with Lonita Baker, attorney for Breonna Taylor's family.

Dec.18 -- NAACP President and Chief Executive Officer Derrick Johnson discusses the reasons behind the civil-rights organization's return of a donation it received from Facebook Inc. and the call week-long boycott starting Tuesday, Dec....

New Stop AAPI Hate report shows 9,000+ incidents since the start of the pandemic. About 10% of all incidents happen in schools.

The longtime congressman and civil rights icon revealed the diagnosis in a statement Sunday.

The NAACP has proposed policy aimed at preventing future acts of racist domestic terrorism that involves law enforcement, regulation and gun control.

John Heilemann talks with two-time Peabody Award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj, best known for hosting six seasons of the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and his widely acclaimed Netflix special, Homecoming King. In the wake...

A monument of John Lewis will go up outside the Dekalb County, Georgia, courthouse.

One major finding shows women are punished more harshly and more often than men for minor offenses like cursing or altering their clothing.

Jan.18 -- A group of activist shareholders are proposing that Amazon.com Inc. stop selling facial recognition software to government agencies until its board determines the technology doesn’t threaten people’s civil rights. Bloomberg's...

The cast of "Till", an Oscar-tipped movie about the lynching of a young Black teenager in 1950s Mississippi, walks the red carpet in Beverly Hills (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced Friday at the Stonewall Inn, scene of the riots widely credited with starting the modern gay rights movement, that the National Park Service will begin marking sites of significance to the...

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, usually packed with thousands of people on this day, will hold its events virtually.

Anna Trushova, communications manager at the Center for Civil Liberties, reacts after to the organisation was awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Ales Bialiatski of Belarus and Russia's Memorial group (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...

After a wrongful conviction, Jarrett Adams opened a law firm and non-profit, 'Life After Justice,' aimed at fixing the injustices he experienced.

Black families are moving out of Chicago, partly to seek lower costs of living and leave gun violence behind.

Ken Burns, award winning documentary filmmaker, talks about why he chose to make the film "Muhammad Ali" and why it took eight years to finish the project. He appears on "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations." This was...

A federal appeals court ruled Harvard did not violate civil rights laws, but Students for Fair Admissions hopes to take its suit to the Supreme Court.

1. ms, President Bill Clinton 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, President of the United States of America: "We all know that the biggest choice you have to make is in the presidential race. Now, you know how I feel. But it's not my...

A divided Supreme Court threw out major parts of Arizona's tough crackdown on illegal immigrants on Monday, in a ruling sure to reverberate through the November elections. While finding much of the Arizona law unconstitutional, the...