civil rights

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At the rally in Montgomery, chants of “we won’t go back” echoed through crowds gathered near the Alabama Capitol, where both Confederate and civil rights monuments stand within view of one another.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

British music star FKA twigs is to play Josephine Baker in a new biopic of the Roaring Twenties icon who became a hero of the French Resistance and the American civil rights movement.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

“Whether my client’s civil rights were violated will be determined in a court of law,” attorney Daniel Kaiser said last week.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, the department’s top civil rights lawyer, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

During the past twenty years, virtually every progressive, national civil rights organization in the country has mobilized and rallied in defense of affirmative action.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander