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civil rights

“We Have So Much Magical Thinking About Equality”: A Q&A with Legal Expert Dahlia Lithwick

Veteran legal writer Dahlia Lithwick holds forth on women's rights, the Constitution, and why sometimes Canadians see the U.S. more clearly than its own citizens.
By James Ledbetter

Here Are All the Civil Rights Changes Facebook Has Declined or Is Still Evaluating

Meta has declined recommendations from a civil rights audit related to voter interference.
By Isabella Simonetti

Rosa Parks’ House Is on View in Italy, and Its Return to the US Is Uncertain

The American artist Ryan Mendoza has taken care of the house since 2008, and thinks it should be a civil rights monument.
By Helen Holmes

Joe Biden Accuses Kamala Harris of Taking His Busing Position ‘Out of Context’

By Davis Richardson

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Eric Swalwell Clash Over Civil Rights

By Davis Richardson

Kamala Harris Pivots in Favor of Independent Probes for Police Shootings

By Davis Richardson

How Tech Can Tackle Civil Rights Issues From Jobs to Campaign Finance

By John Bonazzo
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks at the New York Historical Society on June 20, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Declares February 22 ‘Loretta Lynch Day’

By Madina Toure
Turtles

Can a 50-Year-Old Pop Album Stop Us From Destroying Each Other?

By John Kruth
NASHVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 19: Congressman John Lewis chats with addresses audience attending Nashville Public Library Award to Civil Rights Icon Congressman John Lewis - Literary Award on November 19, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.

John Lewis, a Lynching Apology and Unity Come to Small Town Georgia

By John A. Tures
Washington, D.C.'s Priests.

D.C. Punks Priests on Outrage, Organizing, and Fighting Trump

By Justin Joffe
"Nobody knows the struggle of the black community better than I do."

Rob Schneider Just Got in the Middle of the John Lewis-Donald Trump Twitter War

By John Bonazzo
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer.

‘I Am Ready for the Fight’ Against Trump, Schumer Declares on Martin Luther King Day

By Madina Toure
A man uses a selfie stick on his smartphone during a protest on H Street near the White House November 9, 2015 in Washington, DC. Activists gathered to protest the mining of fossil fuels, police violence and racism, and immigration issues. AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Cell Phone Surveillance at Peaceful Protest Draws Lawsuit Against Chicago Police

By Brady Dale
Rev. Al Sharpton.

Al Sharpton Promises Donald Trump ‘a Fight for the Future of This Country’

By Madina Toure
Yusef Salaam, one of five men wrongly convicted and imprisoned in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, speaks during a Facebook Live chat.

Central Park Five’s Yusef Salaam Wants Voters and Pols to ‘Just Dump Trump’

By Madina Toure
Calvin Trillin reflects on a half century of reporting and "deadline poetry."

Calvin Trillin Marches Back to the Civil Rights Movement

By David Wallis
Rev. Al Sharpton.

Little Consensus on the Future of Rikers Island at Sharpton Town Hall

By Felipe De La Hoz
Nina circa 1968 (Photo by Getty Images)

How Journalist Alan Light Wrote Nina Simone’s Biography in Reverse

By Justin Joffe
Picture released on April 1972 of US communist militant Angela Davis arriving at the court for her trial , in San Jose. Angela Davis was acquitted on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy arising from the 07 August 1970 shooting in the same courthouse, in which a judge and three other people were killed. (Photo credit should read STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Angela Davis Came to Miami

By Adeline Oka
An officer from the Chicago Police Department struggles with an antiwar demonstrator outside Democratic headquarters at the Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue as demonstrators attempt to break through police lines to move the protest to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, being held five miles away at the International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, August 28, 1968. (Photo by APA/Getty Images)

Who Do You Believe: Cops and Judges or Your Own Lying Eyes?

By Joe Lapointe

Breaking: Ryan Gosling Endorses Bernie Sanders

By Michael Sainato
Ta-Nehisi Coates.

What Ta-Nehisi Coates Can Learn From the Jewish Experience

By Andrew Eil
MONTGOMERY, AL - MARCH 06: Amelia Boynton Robinson and Bernice King attend the reception honoring the 50th anniversary of the "Selma to Montgomery" March at Rosa Parks Library Museum on March 6, 2015 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images for 51 Miles Forward presented by Hyundai Motor America)

Remembering Civil Rights Matriarch Amelia Boynton Robinson

By Michael Sainato
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