On March 15, 2025, in a new executive order, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that endows the president with ...

Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to the example of US civil rights activists, who kept ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

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.

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

In line with that history ... all civil rights and liberties, especially for marginalized communities. It is responsible for enforcing federal voting and election laws that protect access to the ...

A bill removing protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the state's civil rights act could be on Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk by Thursday night. House and Senate Republicans are ...

The bill, introduced last Thursday, would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which currently provides ... is a “dark stain” on Iowa history. Paden Sheumaker (left), a ...

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

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

The Selma to Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday deserve to be remembered for their importance to civil rights in the U.S.

INVITE. IOWA STATE HOUSE WAS FILLED WITH CHANTS OF PROTEST TODAY, AS LAWMAKERS ADVANCED A PROPOSAL TO REMOVE GENDER IDENTITY FROM IOWA’S CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. HOUSE FILE 583, FORMERLY HOUSE BILL 242 ...