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 ...

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 ...

The late reverend and civil rights icon died at the age of 84. Here’s what we know about his final months. Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who fought for equality alongside Martin Luther ...

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.

Last week, a St. Petersburg court in a closed door hearing, designated a leading Russian LGBT rights group, Coming Out, as an “extremist organization.” The ruling delivers another severe blow to a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act ...