During the Jim Crow era, Black voters faced intimidation and violence. As advocates across the country rally to register voters ahead of November's 2024 presidential election, Leslie McLemore, the Rev ...

Human rights issues—from equal treatment for minorities to freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Bill of Rights, such as speech, ...

A new Freedom Trail marker honors three Jackson lawyers who fought Jim Crow from Farish Street, where they built key civil-rights cases.

When Vice President Kamala Harris rushed to Arizona late last week after the state Supreme Court upheld an 1864 law banning abortion in almost all cases, she began her speech with a stark declaration: ...

“Doors to Freedom,” a project by the Human Rights Foundation, Cuban Freedom March and City of Miami Beach, features the works ...

You don’t need a PhD in international relations to know that freedom, democracy and human rights are on the defensive around the world, and losing ground in many countries. It’s not just the big ...

The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State ...

The landscape of reproductive healthcare continues to evolve, bringing both challenges and victories in the ongoing struggle for reproductive freedom. As legislative decisions reshape access to ...

January 21, 2025 - Terminating tenured faculty can present significant challenges for public colleges and universities. Often personnel rules or collective bargaining agreements prohibit terminations ...

If you measure freedom that way, a very different map starts glowing. First, let’s change the definition of “freedom” ...