A proposal to codify protections from discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity in federal law previously stalled in the House.

Pope’s formative essay in 1960 encouraging the fight for civil rights was published in the New York Times and several newspapers around the country, pushing Americans against segregation throughout the country.

Multiple organizations advocating for marginalized Americans and progressives called President Biden’s action ‘historic,’ ‘life-changing’ step for millions.

More lawmakers are introducing and passing legislation to protect LGBTQ people in their jurisdictions from the discriminatory laws of other states.

Florida’s Republican governor has passed a flurry of bills this month attacking abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, and voting rights, making districts less representative, and creating a police force just for elections.

The bill simply adds ‘applicants’ to existing age discrimination protections.

Cristina Nichole Iglesias is seeking gender-affirming surgery after waiting for years.

The Alabama senator recentlypressed Biden’s nominee to lead the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, about policies regarding transgender athletes.

‘We will not leave any stone unturned to save American democracy,’ said Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League.

‘This ruling is much worse than we had anticipated,’ said an attorney for the Brennan Center for Justice.

The judge did allow claims against the Metropolitan Police Department and the Arlington Police Department, whose officers fired smoke bombs and pepper balls on protesters at Lafayette Square last summer, to proceed.

Campsites used by voting rights marchers in 1965 need immediate attention or risk being lost, according to the nonprofit National Trust for Historic Preservation.

‘We will not tolerate the mistreatment of individuals in civil immigration detention or substandard conditions of detention,’ said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

‘What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do today,’ the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

But some of the same states that are expanding rights are at the same time trying to restrict them.

Corporate endorsements of the Equality Act have more than doubled since the House first passed it in 2019.

‘What we did in the 20th century was the first Great Awakening of resistance to the racist systems. And I maintain that Black Lives Matter is the heir of that campaign,’ the Rev. James Lawson said.

Four Black students were refused service and declined to give up their seats at a ‘whites only’ lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.

The ad also points out the filibuster was ‘used’ by former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, an opponent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

State lawmakers who’ve introduced discriminatory bills targeting LGBTQ minors are on ‘notice,’ legal experts say.

For the second time in as many days, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to adjourn the House to avoid a vote on the Equality Act.

The Trump administration’s latest effort comes at the ’11th hour,’ one expert says, but may still be hard to undo later on.

Black voters were a driving national force pushing the former vice president to victory over Donald Trump.

An internal report found that a former FEMA official had improper sexual relationships with subordinates and created a ‘toxic’ work environment.

Many of the review team appointees are graduates of historically Black colleges and universities.

The new laws seek to reduce racial disparities in maternal deaths and protect Black job applicants and employees from discrimination.

‘Each generation, there has been someone to pick up the torch.’

‘The women’s movement is not giving up until this thing is in the Constitution, period.’

Clyburn, the highest-ranking Black lawmaker in Congress, is one of the few leaders of the civil rights movement still in elective office today.

‘There is no title or honor on earth I’ll treasure more than to say I am Shyamala Gopalan Harris’ daughter.’