Hired in 2019 as the ACLU’s first DEI chief, AJ Hikes has also emerged at the center of a labor-rights case against the nonprofit that deemed it ...

Black queer and trans political leaders have long been at the forefront of achieving progress and securing human rights.

Over the course of 90 minutes, that audience heard District Court Judge Wilma Lewis pose questions to Jackson about her life, ...

Timothy Coon was Polk County's first Black judge, a retired Air Force Reserve officer, an avid golfer, a married man of 48 years and father.

Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience,” said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No one can take that away because I lived it, and it's my story. And we can't ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Barbara Brown Simmons was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law and the first ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is the focus of debate over who can be an American.