The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

Negotiations that led to the executive order on race and policing signed last week by President Joe Biden had been in danger of breaking down

Libya faces a serious security threat from foreign fighters and private military companies, especially Russia’s Wagner Group which has violated international law, UN experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press. The experts also accused seven Libyan armed groups of systematically using unlawful detention to punish perceived opponents,…

McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) investors have voted in favor of a proposal for an independent civil-rights audit, Bloomberg reported. The civil rights audit was the only shareholder proposal to gain the backing of a majority of votes cast at McDonald’s annual meeting. About 52% of votes were in favor of the audit and 47%…

Trial was one of the biggest civil rights cases in a generation

Minneapolis officers prosecuted, local reforms adopted in some states, but national overhaul of policing falls short.

Black Equity Organisation, whose trustees include David Lammy and Dame Vivian Hunt, aims to dismantle systemic racism in UK

A national and independent civil rights group, founded by some of the most influential Black people in the country, has been set up to advance justice for Britain’s Black communities.

Here's a curious case described in the Washington Post in 1980, one that didn't make it into my forthcoming book on racial classifications: Miguel Sandoval arrived in Harlem in 1959 from Havana, where he'd been an outspoken advocate of better civil rights for black Cubans. Sandoval was Cuban, but he…

White supremacy is as American as apple pie, as the latest killings in Buffalo show, says the US philosopher and civil rights activist

Civil rights and community leaders gathered the night before to plead with the nation to confront and stop racist violence

Delaware State University filed a complaint Wednesday to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division calling for an external investigation of the traffic stop.