We’re all familiar with German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about speaking out. For U.S. voters, that time is…
Amazon is all but gifting the use of its powerful facial recognition program to help power law enforcement agencies’…
This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in…
During the 2016 presidential election, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine touted his experience as a former civil rights…
A scandal is brewing in the immigrant rights movement after the president of the League of United Latin American…
It’s been nearly one year since Donald Trump’s inauguration as president. It’s also been nearly 50 years since the…
Donald Trump can’t disappear American citizens.
For transgender Americans seeking to enlist in the military, the coming new year will mark a major victory in a long,…
Erica Garner, who became an outspoken activist against police abuse after a New York policeman killed her father with a…
The government already has lost one case for trying to block an undocumented teenager in federal custody from having an…
There’s been an attack on American soil, people are looking for a strong leader to assuage their fears and promise to…
The two-story brick plantation house in Georgia is an unlikely “monument to the culture” of the Cherokee tribe, but…
Bree Newsome, the civil rights activist who daringly scaled a 30-foot flagpole in Columbia, SC, to remove a Confederate…
The United States Commission on Civil Rights issued a bipartisan condemnation on Friday of President Donald Trump’s…
More than two years after a Muslim-American woman claimed a California police officer forcibly removed the hijab from…
A group of transgender troops are suing Donald Trump over his tweets announcing a ban on trans people serving openly in…
After ignoring military leaders who said it is a stupid idea that will degrade military readiness, the administration…
A local TV news station owned by the right–wing Sinclair Broadcast Group on Friday shared a photo on social media of…
The heads of U.S. military branches are trying to delay a July 1 deadline for allowing transgender people to join the…
By a majority vote, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has launched a probe of the Trump administration’s handling of…
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