Federal prosecutors could investigate state and local officials who do not cooperate with Donald Trump’s hardline immigration ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the ...

Minutes before leaving office, former President Joe Biden commuted Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member Leonard Peltier's ...

Shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted Leonard Peltier’s life sentence to indefinite house arrest ...

The outgoing Biden administration has released Leonard Peltier from prison. Numerous activists and tribal officials have ...

Richards, the eldest daughter of Gov. Ann Richards, forged her own path as a tireless advocate for women across Texas and the ...

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the ...

Cecile Richards, a prominent women's rights advocate and former head of Planned Parenthood, died at 67 from brain cancer. Her ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

In one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr., a seminal figure in ...

On the third Monday of each January, Americans honor the memory of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., a leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, who advocated for social change through ...