Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of enslaved people who became wealthy because of the institution of slavery. His Indian Removal Act forced more than 50,000 Native Americans off their ancestral homes, opening up the land for white settlement.

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” The order Mr. Trump signed on Monday would reverse decades of precedent and affect children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants.

Lawyers and advocacy organizations are encouraging members of the LGBTQ+ community to act quickly to protect the rights that are still in place after President Donald Trump signed an executive ... The nonprofit advocates for the civil rights of LGBTQ+ ...

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Pinterest are just a few of the companies whose leaders say they will still emphasize diversity, as the new administration’s war on such policies ramps up.

One of President Donald Trump’s several broken campaign promises was highlighted by a question Thursday as he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he refused to say if Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine would be over in a year.

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president ... collaborated and clashed with King throughout the Civil Rights Movement. “Our mission doesn’t change.

Massive protests are out. Democrats are taking a more methodical approach to Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President Joe Biden is spending the last full day of his presidency in South Carolina — a state that helped propel him to the White House in 2020.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast takes place every year to honor the civil rights leader’s legacy, and this year, it happened just as a new president was being sworn in.

Photo courtesy of news click What does a second Donald Trump presidency really mean, especially for women and minority rights not only in the US but also globally? (Un)fortunately, we have a considerable number of precedents to rely on.