Latina women like Frida Kahlo, Rita Moreno, and Ellen Ochoa are pioneers in their field, having become the first Hispanic women to achieve major feats.

Senegalese proponents of a tougher anti-LGBT law discussed campaign strategy and mobilization tactics with a U.S.-based ...

Iowa Senate Republicans approved legislation that would prohibit cities and counties from expanding civil rights protections ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gathering in the Alabama city this weekend, amid new concerns ...

Bernard LaFayette FILE PHOTO: View of American Civil Rights activist Bernard LaFayette Jr during a Freedom Riders planning session, Montgomery, Alabama, May 1961. LaFayette died on March 5 at the age ...

The man who pushed for voter rights has died. Bernard LaFayette was 85 years old. His son, Bernard LaFayette, III, said his father died on March 5 of a heart attack, according to The Associated Press.

An Aspen activist is hoping to gain support for a paradigm shift in the way people view their local waterway by granting rights to the Roaring Fork River. Environmental psychologist, author and Aspen ...

At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. By Sam Roberts Jo Ann Bland, who ...

University administrators shouldn’t be in the business of “reviewing” student politics. But that’s the direction the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign appeared to take after the Illini ...

A beloved member of the Selma, Alabama, community has passed away. Joanne Bland, who participated in marches since she was a little girl, including Bloody Sunday as a child foot soldier of the Civil ...