This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across ...

State education officials are rethinking the César Chávez curriculum, urging teachers to minimize his role in the farm labor movement.

In February, the Department of Justice joined a lawsuit against Los Angeles Unified School District brought by conservative activists, seeking to use the 14th Amendment to repeal a desegregation ...

WOBURN — The family of a special-needs man who died after a December 2023 crash caused by State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is preparing to expand their wrongful-death lawsuit to include civil rights ...

The U.S. Department of Education dismissed the vast majority of discrimination complaints it received — likely including many based on disability — all while spending millions in an effort to fire ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UPDATE: Police have identified the victim as Elizabeth Paukstis, 52, from Washington, D.C. She was licensed to practice law in D.C ...

UPDATE: Police have identified the victim as Elizabeth Paukstis, 52, from Washington, D.C. She was licensed to practice law in D.C., Maryland, New York and Texas. She was a civil rights attorney and ...

Elizabeth Paukstis was an attorney who was in East Texas assisting inmates at the TDCJ Tennessee Colony Unit, and was part of the Innocence Project. The Republican governor getting under Trump’s skin ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In one important respect, the February letter is different: it highlights the fact ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, died peacefully on Tuesday morning at the age of 84. Geoff Bennett reports on Jackson's legacy and his decades of ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...