COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

While these issues are widely lamented in human rights circles, the true consequences of the tectonic shifts in the ...

For years, Barfield had been resisting what he describes as mission drift: a retreat by the nation’s premier free-speech organization from the viewpoint-neutral defense of civil liberties, which had ...

By Sharanya KanikkannanSushil Raj Human rights are not just words on paper. Advocates, social movements and government ...

The civil rights lawyer called Trump’s actions an “assault on core principles of our democracy” and said ... it threatens to investigate organizations committed to fostering diversity and inclusion, ...

Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, who are tackling systemic racism.

On Oct. 1, 1964, a UC Berkeley grad student named Jack Weinberg was manning a table on Sproul Plaza for the Congress On Racial Equality (CORE) civil rights organization. The school administration ...

as a Kansas City leader with an emphasis on lifting the inner city and urban core. Founder of the Urban ... commemorate Wasserstrom’s work for civil rights in Kansas City. Tindall said he ...

Under Doris Bland’s leadership, MAW reframed welfare as a right rather than a privilege, emphasizing the dignity and agency ...

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed announced the removal of two billboards with the words "Make America Great Again" displayed over ...