civil rights

A coalition of civil rights groups releasing a report on hate crime laws says the protections against bias-motivated violence are inconsistent and lack uniformity nationally

Sixty-one years ago this month, several Howard University students and allies walked into the People’s Drug Store on Lee Highway in Arlington. For the next two weeks, they participated in sit-ins to protest white-only lunch counters across the county.  Now a special exhibit and letter-pressed cards mark the moment in Arlington’s civil rights history. “The idea is for you...

On June 9, 1960, several Howard University students and allies walked into the People’s Drug Store on Lee Highway in Arlington.  For the next two weeks, there was a series of peaceful sit-ins to protest the white-only lunch counters across the County.  Now there is a special exhibit and letter-pressed cards to mark this important moment of Arlington’s civil rights...

A new executive order from President Joe Biden directs federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access

A San Diego-based artist is celebrating Civil Rights movements and natural hair with a new design that champions them both with one word to describe them: power.

Johnnie R. Turner, a former Tennessee state representative, talks about her experience with implicit segregation on buses and public spaces even after courts have ruled to desegregate.

Deborah Archer, a law professor at New York University with expertise in civil rights and racial justice, has become the first Black person in the 101-year history of the American Civil Liberties Union to be elected its president

Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports the statue of a 16-year-old girl who led a walkout in 1951 to protest students’ substandard segregated school facilities will replace Robert E. Lee in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

A state panel has recommended that a statue of civil rights hero Barbara Johns should represent Virginia at the U.S. Capitol

Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer who inspired the “Freedom Rides,” has died at the age of 83

The case involved a local group home accused of failing to provide a deaf resident with a sign language interpreter. News4’s Cory Smith explains how the Department of Justice is now working to protect people with disabilities.

A Louisiana state trooper has died following a single-vehicle crash hours after learning he would be fired for his role in the in-custody death of a Black man last year.

A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation’s highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

Some civil rights advocates are becoming worried the growing violence in some cities is undermining what could be a critical moment in the fight for racial equality. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

The Commitment March stands on the shoulders of iconic civil rights marches throughout American history — namely the 1963 March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, both of which had a tremendous impact on American life. As civil rights leaders were making history, one little boy in D.C. was being inspired. Eddie Hailes...

Watch the tribute to John Lewis at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

Ida B. Wells was in Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1913 with thousands of other women for a parade spearheaded by one of the country’s leading suffragists, Alice Paul. Wells was representing the Alpha Suffrage Club, the first Black suffrage club in Chicago that she founded two months before. At the rehearsal, she learned that the white organizers...

Former President Barack Obama eulogized Rep. John Lewis Thursday, remembering the work the civil rights icon completed and warning that there is much more work to be done.

Tybre Faw, a 12-year-old boy who Rep. John Lewis befriended two years ago, read the late congressman’s favorite poem at his memorial.