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Georgia's attorney general has tapped an engineering firm to conduct an independent investigation into a dock collapse that killed seven people. Read the latest articles and commentary on civil...
News about Civil Rights, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Opinion | 70 Years Ago Black Activists Accused the U.S. of Genocide. They Should Have Been Taken Seriously. Biden moves ahead on civil rights without Congress. But his legacy depends on them....
Victims of a deadly 2022 shooting attack on a gay nightclub in Colorado have sued local authorities, accusing them of failing to enforce a red flag gun law they say could have prevented the...
In more than 90 minutes of oral arguments that occasionally veered into the justices’ personal frustrations with the press, several conservative justices sided with the liberal wing in appearing to...
Foreign Governments Criticize Hong Kong's Sentencing of 45 Activists. Beijing Defends It. Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, sparking...
Civil rights groups asked a federal judge to stop Florida officials from enforcing a section of a new state immigration law that criminalizes transporting someone who has entered the United States unlawfully.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a former eastern Indiana police officer with civil rights violations, alleging that he used excessive force during three arrests, including by kicking a man in the head and shooting another with beanbags from close range.
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Passed in 1965, the Voting Rights Act has been seen as one of the most significant achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. It dismantled decades of discriminatory Jim Crow laws and aimed...