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New data from a global rights-tracking project shows the country had large declines in 2025 on 8 of the 9 civil and political rights it measures.
In the 1930s, the Lamb family buy the land on which they were enslaved but attempts to take it from them dog them across generations.
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
Two revolutions, two republics and the enduring power of national myths and civic festivities come to the fore in July as France and the US both celebrate national holidays.
The modern rhetorical and political resistance to racial equality finds its roots in the conspiratorial segregationists of the civil rights era.
Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon within a decade.
The conservative majority at the US Supreme Court has issued a ruling in a gerrymandering case that one liberal justice called the ‘now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.’
Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.
In December 2025, the statue of Barbara Rose Johns replaced that of Robert E. Lee as one of the two Virginians displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s why.
After the Voting Rights Act, federal election observers helped ensure fair voting, but that oversight has increasingly shifted focus − to monitor what Washington says is voter fraud and accusations of cheating.
The US may be experiencing democratic backsliding. Around the world, nonviolent civil movements exist to support democracy and protect fellow citizens.
For body cameras to function as transparency tools, wrongdoing would have to be consistently penalized, highlighting the consequences of noncompliance.
From the civil rights era of the 1960s until today, white victims of government violence have received disproportionate attention.
Research shows that white men who file discrimination charges experience employer retaliation at similar rates as other racial groups.
State resistance to federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota illustrates how federalism keeps authority divided and disputed.
The slight decrease in diversity in corporate boardrooms in 2025 comes as the Trump administration and its allies have pushed to unwind diversity initiatives.
At its one-year mark, the Trump administration is dismantling the systems that once helped the US move toward a more open and equal democracy.
A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.
Jean Reith Schroedel’s 1985 book captured the struggles and triumphs of tradeswomen. Forty years later, its lessons remain urgent.
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Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis
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Associate Professor of History, Deakin University
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of History, Morehouse College
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Professor of Education and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of History; Director Center for Civil Rights History and Research, University of South Carolina
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Professor, Florida State University
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Professor of History, Arizona State University
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University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University
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