Costco Wholesale’s shareholders—with over 98 percent voting against—rejected an internal proposal to the Costco Board of ...

American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

Michael Cox said that diversity is “tremendously important” and argued that a diverse officer corps helps the department build trust among Boston’s many ethnic communities.

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

Those moves threaten long-held civil rights protections and enforcement ... The order, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, prohibited discrimination in federal hiring and required ...

CARBONDALE — A documentary on pioneering Black journalist, educator and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells is set for Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library on Feb. 6.

Several of the executive orders erode decades of progress achieved through the civil rights movement. Trump also signed an executive order that invalidates President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 order ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 on Sept. 24, 1965, a year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law. Executive Order 11246 required affirmative action and prohibited ...