Whether citizens of all stripes enjoy broad legal protections increasingly depends on where they live.

The writer's critics call him a cynic. But as a new anthology shows, his thinking has matured in subtle ways over the years.

Taking the knee has become an anodyne symbol of opposition to a reviled president. But there are ways to get Kaepernick's original message across.

A 2015 state law refused drones, grenade launchers, and other military gear. Some see it as a roadmap.

Charlottesville was just one in a long line of incidents of large-scale, organized white terrorism.

The huge march on Saturday may have been a counter-protest, but the organizers have been working for a very long time.

A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.

Conservatives frame privatization as a civil rights issue, but Trump's extreme agenda is energizing racial justice and public education advocates.

John T. Edge's "The Potlikker Papers" looks at multiculturalism, conflict, and civil rights in the American South—all through the history of the region's food.

The U.S. government and local authorities are fighting once again over civil rights. But the dynamic has been turned upside down.

History shows that civil disobedience and mass protests are more effective in the long run than black-bloc tactics.

As Black History Month kicks off with a focus on “The Crisis in Black Education,” the debate has gotten a lot more complicated.

King was a preacher as well as an activist, and that's no accident.

Challenged at work, supported at home, the trio of NASA mathematicians are a bold representation of cooperative black domestic life.

The president-elect could use law enforcement to abuse civil rights.

The Trump administration-in-waiting will try to paint Sessions as a civil rights advocate. Nothing could be further from the truth.