civil rights

A judge on Thursday afternoon found a woman accused of berating and assaulting a woman and her teenage daughter on a Boston street two years ago because they were speaking Spanish guilty of the assault, but not of violating civil rights, a decision some feel isn’t a strong enough punishment. Stephanie Armstrong was the second person to be sentenced...

A trial has begun for a woman accused of berating and assaulting a woman and her teenage daughter on a Boston street two years ago because they were speaking Spanish. The case drew national attention and civil rights advocates decried what they feel was a light sentence for one of the women involved, so they are watching the trial closely….

Surveillance video from February of 2020 shows an assault on Sara Vasquez and her daughter. It happened in Maverick Square in East Boston and Vasquez says the two women involved yelled racist remarks before attacking.

Leona Tate’s perception of race changed drastically in November 1960 — when she became one of the first Black children to desegregate New Orleans schools.

The mother of Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed and shot and killed in an altercation with an armed neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, spoke out on the 10th anniversary of his death.

Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao were each charged with depriving Floyd of his civil rights while acting under government authority.

Three former Minneapolis police officers have been convicted of violating George Floyd’s civil rights

Jurors at the federal trial of three fired Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd’s civil rights went home Wednesday without reaching a verdict

A foundation named for U.S. Rep. John Lewis and his wife has been established to further the work of the late civil rights pioneer

A shuttered bowling alley at the center of a 1968 integration protest where state police killed three Black students is being remade into a civil rights center.

A New Hampshire woman violated the state’s civil rights law by calling a Black child by a racial slur and threatening to kneel on his neck, a court ruled Wednesday. Kristina Graper, 51, of Dover, was accused of threatening the 9-year-old in May after he accidentally broke her son’s toy at a local park. She was prosecuted by the...

A federal court in New York dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Christian wedding photographer who refused to photograph same-sex weddings

A judge has approved a request to wipe clean the court record of a Black woman who was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus in 1955

France is inducting Missouri-born cabaret dancer Josephine Baker who was also a French World War II spy and civil rights activist into its Pantheon

A Florida circuit court judge has cleared the charges against four young Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago

Here is a timeline of key dates related to the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X, and the prosecution of the men originally said to be his killers.

The U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement arm is investigating allegations of racial and gender discrimination at the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, the school district confirmed Wednesday.

The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear the names of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. in Alabama.

A prosecutor has filed a motion to clear the names of four Black men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman more than seven decades ago.

A civil rights complaint was filed against a woman accused of telling a Black child who accidentally broke her son’s toy that she would “kneel on his neck” and calling him a racial slur, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Thursday. Kristina Graper, 51, of Dover, threatened the 9-year-old boy who was playing in a neighborhood park with...