civil rights

Men rarely speak out to protest the Taliban's stripping away of the rights of girls and women. A new study finds that many believe those lost rights should be restored.

Most Palestinians who've been rounded up since Oct. 7 are incarcerated without due process or contact with the outside world, Israeli human rights organizations say. Israel denies abusing detainees.

The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.

Phoenix police discriminate against Black, Hispanic and Native American people, unlawfully detain homeless people and use excessive force, according to a sweeping federal civil rights investigation.

Martin Luther King Jr. called civil rights pioneer, the Rev. James Lawson, the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.

The mother of a mentally ill man who died in a Lawton correctional facility is filing a civil rights lawsuit.

Jails in Charleston and Columbia where incarcerated people have died violently at the hands of employees or others held behind bars are under federal investigation, the U.S. Justice Department said.

LGBTQ+ and abortion rights advocates are thrilled Poland's ruling, right-wing Law and Justice party is unlikely to form Poland's next government. But they are skeptical of the commitment of who will.

Alabama is once again appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower court order that struck down the state's congressional map for likely violating the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voters' power.

StoryCorps brings us memories of one of the first sit-ins of the Civil Rights Era, a protest at a drug store in Oklahoma City that was organized by children.