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 ...

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

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 ...

In Canada, the rights of all workers, including TFWs, are protected by law. If you’re a TFW, you have the same rights and protections as Canadians and permanent residents. On or before your first day ...

The civil rights lawyer called Trump’s actions an “assault on core principles of our democracy” and said ... it threatens to ...

Press freedom, journalists, and human rights organizations have called on the Georgian government ... Media Diversity Institute Western Balkans (MDI WB); PEN International; Civil Rights Defenders (CRD ...

Below are organizations leading efforts to support ... along with the Brazilian Workers Center and Lawyers for Civil Rights, filed a lawsuit against the president. “This unprecedented attempt ...

With the support of the European Union (EU), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announces the Second public call for civil society organizations (CSOs) in 2025, to submit proposals for ...

He helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, two civil rights organizations that were focused on ending the Jim Crow era of racial segregation.

and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees and Levin began seeking nationwide support for their work. People from across the country responded with generosity, ...

Democrats and advocacy groups were quick to criticize the move. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Trump’s order would “gut core civil rights protections” as well as the Labor Department office that ...

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 ...