On Aug. 22, 1989, Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was shot and killed in West Oakland, California, at the
On Aug. 19, 1958, the NAACP Youth Council, led by teacher Clara Luper and her students, launched a sit-in at the Katz Drug Store lunch
Protesters confronted law enforcement officers, including Homeland Security agents, at a police checkpoint in D.C.’s U Street corridor Wednesday night, chanting “Go home fascists” and
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is joining democracy advocates and legal experts today to warn about what they call President Donald Trump’s dangerous weaponization of law
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is threatening to remove Democratic lawmakers from office after more than 50 fled the state in protest of new congressional maps
Protesters took to the streets all across the nation. From The Villages in Florida to courthouses in Oakland, “Good Trouble” is trending in real time
Five years ago today, we lost Congressman John Lewis — an icon of the civil rights movement and a moral compass in American politics. From
More than 85 protests are set up to erupt across the nation tomorrow from New York to Anchorage as part of the “Disappeared in America”
A federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who has been held in immigration detention since March for his
(AURN News) — After a lower court ruled the Trump administration had overstepped, a federal appeals court gave it the green light to retain control
New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral hopeful Brad Lander was arrested Tuesday morning by federal agents — not during a protest, but inside a
On June 17, 1957, the Tuskegee Boycott began. In response to a gerrymandering plan passed by the Alabama Legislature that targeted Black voters, Black residents
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