Demonstrators gathered in cities across the US on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions. The protests were a result of a movement that has organized online under the hashtags ...

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A lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the California Asthma ...

February 5, 2025, marked the 30th birth anniversary of Trayvon Martin, who was just a teen when he was fatally shot over a ...

Donald Trump is being sued by unions representing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, following an unprecedented attack against the humanitarian agency, which supports ...

Critics argue that Trump and his allies used “CRT” as a catch-all label to oppose teaching about systemic racism, which in ...

With the themes of community, social justice, empathy and art in mind, Lee and Karnes led a small group of students up and ...

"We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations," said Joe Kent. "We need to use the tools of the federal ...

Demonstrators decried everything from the president's immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a ...

In a grass-roots effort to kick off a national movement, organizers encouraged those opposed to President Trump’s actions on immigration, transgender rights and more to gather at state capitals and ...