While progressives love to claim fealty to the First Amendment, they actually have used the Fourteenth Amendment to squash ...

She was among the last of a generation of activists and lawyers who weathered the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort in the decades that followed. By Clay Risen In early October 1964, Ann ...

WASHINGTON — Today, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum authorizing government-wide investigations into non-profits, activists, and their donors and funders using vague and overbroad ...

Sean McRoberts of Iowa City first came to terms with their gender identity almost six years ago while in their upper 30s and has felt freer and more like themselves since. McRoberts, a transgender ...

Plans to roll out a compulsory digital ID card in Britain have sparked fierce debate among Independent readers. While many branded the “Brit card” an attack on civil liberties and insisted it would do ...

Following a major renovation, National Center for Civil and Human Rights will include new east and west wings that house a café, several additional galleries — including one designed for children — ...

The Scottish Rite Theater was once a German beer hall, where suds flowed long after the curtain fell. Protests at the Varsity ...

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was an immigration attorney, she would tell clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers working for the ...

Limelight Theatre debuts a reading of "When All The Saints Are Gathered" Oct. 11 and 12, highlighting St. Augustine's ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...