Then and now, the definition of patriotism summons complicated feelings that speak to politics, partisanship, and how love of country is expressed in a multitude of ways.

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...

Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the 60th anniversary of the International ...

Sixty years ago this week, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led civil rights demonstrators on their third attempt to march from ...

The phrase “Give me liberty or give me death!” has been expressed by protesters from the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising in ...

March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in history. America's civil rights leaders completed their 54-mile march from Selma, ...

The Department of Homeland Security is making cuts to three key offices that oversee civil rights protections across its broad mission, suggesting that they were impeding immigration enforcement ...

The big picture: As the nation marks the 60th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, many have forgotten ...

New surveys report that boys are feeling discouraged in the classroom and are less likely to go to college. Is this true in your experience? By Shannon Doyne How do these journalists craft ...

The second Sudanese civil war from 1983 to 2005 killed an estimated two million people, with widespread documentation of famine and atrocities. In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded ...