Alex Roth Roth is a senior financial analyst and attorney. He lives in Portland. What’s the scariest thing, nowadays, about going out in public? One very reasonable answer sounds like an old... Read more

A month ago, civil rights veteran Dolores Huerta was arrested for protesting the wages of home care workers with a labor union in California. On Thursday, Huerta shared her experience as an... Read more

‘ACLU Voters” have been popping up across New Hampshire – and they have questions. If you’ve been to a presidential candidate event this year, you may have heard someone introduce themselves... Read more

Dr. Abernathy was away at the time with Dr. King organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which became the driving force of the civil rights movement. Ms. Abernathy, who was... Read more

As a boy growing up in Wheeler, Alabama,in the 1940s, Charles Elliott Jr. experienced first-hand the hostility and ugliness of a racist society. “I had a hate simmering in my heart for white... Read more

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The city of Memphis and Shelby County honored one of the greatest living civil rights leaders Monday by naming a downtown building after James Meredith. As the man who integ... Read more

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The Senate spent the better part of three months in 1964 debating, amending and voting on the Civil Rights Act. Not once did anyone in the chamber use the phrase “sexual orientation.” Yet 55... Read more

A Washington, D.C. organization is challenging the ability of the heads of state agencies in Arizona to discard the conclusions of independent hearing officers. The new lawsuit filed Friday... Read more