Police raids were frequent and expected among the gay bars in Greenwich Village in the late 1960s.   In every state except Illinois, simpl...

  For many Americans, Donald Trump’s head-spinning array of executive orders in the early days of his second term looks like an unprecedent...

  My family and I stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings in Georgia a few weekends ago after watching one of our kids take part in a marching band co...

  Polls show that LGBTQ rights will likely factor into most Americans’ pick for president this November as they choose between former Republ...

  It wasn’t called voter suppression back then, but civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer knew exactly how white authorities in Mississippi...

  After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten, and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955, his mother, Mamie Till...

  As a historian of racism and white supremacy in the United States, I’ve become accustomed to callous actions like those of Republican gove...

  A simmering, difficult, and timely question returns to the Supreme Court this fall: What happens when freedom of speech and civil rights c...

  Considered to be the largest social justice movement since the civil rights era of the 1960s, Black Lives Matter is more than the scores...

  Nearly a week before the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd by placing...

  Eric Peebles can do so many things.     He runs his own successful consulting business with a nationwide reach. He held a university facul...

  As state legislators consider hundreds of bills on election policies this spring, false claims of voter fraud are being repeated as just...

  Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, was established by Congress to recognize and celebrate the contributions of women over the co...

  Emmett Till's spirit is still with us. It began to rise in August 1965. Fourteen-year-old Emmett was on summer school vacation from Ch...

  Suppose an intelligent machine deems you guilty of a crime. Suppose the police were to treat the machine’s judgment as evidence of your gu...

  Lest any observer refuse at this late date to acknowledge that the full weight of the police state is pressed on the American citizenry’s ...

  To suggest that all cops and all judges are racial bigots would obviously be ridiculous. But it would be equally ridiculous to suggest tha...

  The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a powerful symbol all over the world. The bridge is a symbol of voting rights, a symbol of struggle, and a sym...

  JoAnne Bland was only 12 when she collapsed in horror on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965. State troopers were brutali...

  The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling extending workplace discrimination protection to cover sexual orientation and gender identity was chee...