RHS teacher Donna Avino and local historian and artist Bill Batson teamed up to create the Rockland County Civic Survey Project.

Two trailblazers are reflecting on the 25th anniversary of Vermont's civil unions law, a once-divisive issue they now view as a step toward greater equality ...

So Cupp contacted the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in December 2024. On Dec. 16, a staffer from the department's Chicago office called Cupp to learn more about her ...

John Baldacci to prohibit discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act based on sexual orientation. Gender identity is included within the definition: "Sexual orientation means a person's ...

A few months ago, another image of Mrs. King from the U.N. march was discovered on a contact sheet in The Times’s archive libraries. The portrait was taken by the Times photographer Neal Boenzi, who ...

A pregnant street vendor who was allegedly attacked by a woman in Simi Valley has filed a civil rights lawsuit, claiming the incident was a hate crime. The attorneys for Mary B. announced the ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — A Spokane Valley man is suing the Spokane Valley Police Department and one of its officers after he was dragged from his car and thrown to the ground in October 2023. The ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – As part of National Fair Housing Month, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) released new data this week showing widespread housing discrimination in Los Angeles and Ventura ...

Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.

Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding each year Harvard University faces intense scrutiny from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform because of ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The meeting, which Target asked for, comes after some civil rights groups urged consumers not to shop at Target in response to the retailer’s decision to cut back on DEI. While Sharpton has not ...