FBI seeks public's help to find relatives of those killed in civil rights cold cases Over the last three years, the FBI scoured ...
Government pressure on companies linked to social media networks is threatening to infringe civil liberties, an Internet forum in Egypt heard on Wednesday. ...
Carnival-like atmosphere leads up to official Barack Obama holiday in poor Alabama county The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday." The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official ...
Gay leaders blame TV ads, Obama for same-sex marriage loss in Maine; conservatives rejoice Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads — and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement — for a bitter election setback in Maine that ...
Fla. attorney general urges lawmakers to make occupational licensing tougher for ex-felons Attorney General Bill McCollum urged Florida lawmakers Tuesday to make it tougher for former felons to get occupational licenses for jobs involving children, seniors and disabled people. McCollum, who's also ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian man who was detained at a New York airport and then moved to Syria, where he says he was tortured, cannot sue the United States, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. Maher Arar, a Syrian-born ...
Supreme Court won't review reputed Klansman's conviction in Civil Rights Era cold case The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a judge's ruling that allowed prosecutors to charge a reputed Ku Klux Klansman with kidnapping more than 40 years after two ...
SCLC, co-founded by Martin Luther King Jr., names his daughter Bernice as 1st female president The Rev. Bernice King embraced the legacy and leadership of her parents on Friday as she became the first woman to head the civil rights organization co-founded ...
President Obama has yet to comment on passage of a gay-inclusive hate crimes bill President Obama has yet to comment on passage of a gay-inclusive hate crimes bill. On Thursday, senators voted 68 to 29 in favor of expanding hate crimes legislation ...
Jack Nelson, former Los Angeles Times reporter and Washington bureau chief, dies at 80 Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the Los Angeles Times and was the paper's Washington bureau ...
Equality California (EQCA) honored gay rights proponents Saturday at its annual awards ceremony in Palm Springs Equality California (EQCA) honored gay rights proponents Saturday at its annual awards ceremony in Palm Springs. Over 400 people attended the Equality Awards, one of the ...
Obituaries in the news Stephen Barnett BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Stephen Barnett, a First Amendment professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and prominent critic of the state court system, has died. He was 73. The school said ...
