civil rights

A civil rights activist, attorney and writer explain race relations, societal change and the political awakening happening in the United States following the tragic death of George Floyd. When it comes to race, “systemic problems have plagued the nation for not only decades, but for centuries,” says Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

The leaders of four civil rights groups called for advertisers to continue boycotting Facebook on Tuesday after a meeting with the company’s top executives that left them feeling unconvinced of the social media giant’s commitment to stopping hate speech.

A Virginia man faces federal charges after officials say he burned a cross on the front lawn of a Black teenager who organized a civil rights protest the previous day.

Bob Moses says America is at “a lurching moment” for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and the 1960s civil rights movement that he helped lead

Across the country Friday, people gathered in observance of Juneteenth, a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S.

Alone in the hospital with no way to communicate. That has been the experience for some adults with developmental disabilities in our state throughout this pandemic. When the ambulance came in April for their mother, who has a brain injury, Michele McDuell and Susan Fandacone said they expected at least one of them would be able to accompany her to…

Patients with disabilities may now have a designated support person with them in hospitals

A judge on Monday kept bail at $1 million for a Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd’s death.

Protests against police brutality continued Sunday in cities across the nation.

Ben Crump, the attorney for George Floyd’s family, spoke at the memorial for Floyd and called for people to stand up to evil.

“The culture permeates all of us, a culture that allows things to happen, a culture where the public cannot trust,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Tuesday during a news conference announcing a civil rights charge against the Minneapolis Police Department.

A Honolulu police officer has pleaded guilty to depriving a homeless man of his civil rights by forcing him to lick a public urinal. John Rabago says he told the man he wouldn’t be arrested if he licked the urinal. Rabago and another officer had responded to a nuisance complaint when they found the man in a stall in a...

A Massachusetts sheriff who joined a federal immigration enforcement program and offered to send inmates to help build Republican President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is being sued by a civil rights group.

As local, state and federal investigators try to figure out who set a mosque on fire, New Haven public safety officials have started a new safety campaign for places of worship.

Google removed an app that promoted so-called “conversion therapy” from its Play Store, following pressure from an LGBT rights lobby. The app was made by Texas-based Christian group Living Hope Ministries, which claims it helps gay people with “leaving” their sexuality. “After consulting with outside advocacy groups, reviewing our policies, and making sure we had a thorough understanding of the...

Google removed an app that promoted so-called “conversion therapy” from its Play Store, following pressure from an LGBT rights lobby. The app was made by Texas-based Christian group Living Hope Ministries, which claims it helps gay people with “leaving” their sexuality. “After consulting with outside advocacy groups, reviewing our policies, and making sure we had a thorough understanding of the...

A civil rights group has sued the U.S. government, saying it needs more information about surveillance of Americans’ phone and financial records to guide the public debate over what will happen when the law that regulates the scrutiny expires next year. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the National Security Agency, the director of national intelligence, the CIA and the...

Puerto Ricans who fled Hurricane Maria’s devastation and have been living in temporary housing on the mainland were granted a reprieve Saturday night when a federal judge temporarily blocked the government from ending an assistance program that was set to expire. U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin of Massachusetts ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot end its Transitional...

President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser was, until last month, the chairman a nonprofit that promoted false, misleading anti-Muslim news, according to an NBC News review. John Bolton began chairing the Gatestone Institute in 2013. The advocacy group has warned of a “jihadist takeover” in Europe” and a “Great White Death” on the continent, and its articles have been...

Civil rights and indigent defense groups asked Massachusetts’ highest court Thursday to stop federal agents from arresting immigrants targeted for deportation at courthouses, saying the practice is scaring victims, witnesses and others away from halls of justice.