Prominent Atlanta attorney Ed Buckley, whose advocacy for discriminated-against Georgia employees led to landmark civil rights protections nationwide, has died after a battle with cancer. Buckley, 68, ...

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd Atlanta mayor.

The 11th Circuit heard arguments over whether Eric André and Clayton English were racially profiled and unreasonably searched ...

ATLANTA - The Madame C.J. Walker Museum & WERDStudio in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn Historic District has been officially added to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, a network of landmarks that played key ...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has charged 25-year-old Bonnie Brown and 60-year-old Sherri Mauldin in connection with ...

The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has called for stronger protection of human rights in Georgia. In a new memorandum published on March 26, Commissioner ...

RALEIGH, N.C (WTVD) -- Prominent civil rights lawyers Ben Crump and Bakari Sellers joined the family of Tyrone Mason on Friday morning in downtown Raleigh for a news conference. Mason was killed ...

Atlanta's City Attorney sent a letter to federal and state agencies, telling them that the IG employees who ask them to take over several investigations are "disgruntled." City Attorney Patrise ...

State and local officials play direct and crucial roles in shaping and safeguarding our civil rights and civil liberties, especially amid the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks. These offices and ...