Sanders pitches black voters on ideas and history, not faith
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — When black voters in South Carolina consider Bernie Sanders, they don’t tend to think of h...
AP-NORC poll: Most Americans support Equal Rights Amendment
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — LaVonne Hirashima had two children by the time she was 20 and no time to get a college degree. Inste...
American women seek more than $66M in damages from US Soccer
Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages as part their gender discriminati...
‘Black in Space’ looks at final frontier of civil rights
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astr...
Settlement approved in discrimination suit against Motel 6
PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has given final approval to a $10 million settlement in a class-action discrimination lawsuit tha...
California to apologize for internment of Japanese Americans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Les Ouchida was born an American just outside California's capital city, but his citizenship mattered little after Japan bombed P...
House acts to remove deadline for Equal Rights Amendment
WASHINGTON — In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House on Thursday approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification a...
US soccer men’s union says women’s pay should be tripled
NEW YORK — The U.S. men's national team urged the U.S. Soccer Federation to sharply increase pay of the American women and accused the governing body ...
White supremacist propaganda spreading, anti-bias group says
NEW YORK — Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year, according to t...
New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides
PHILADELPHIA — The new commissioner of the nation's fourth-largest city police force will start work Monday amid a surge in homicides and calls for ac...
California pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s governor announced Wednesday that he is posthumously pardoning a gay civil rights leader while creating a new pardon...
Midwestern states consider banning bias based on hairstyles
TOPEKA, Kan. — Black female legislators in two predominantly white Midwestern states urged their Republican colleagues Tuesday to join a national push...
Soccer players union promises to defend Olympic protesters
GENEVA — Soccer players who defy Olympic rules by making protest gestures at the 2020 Tokyo Games will be supported by their global union.
Leader of St. Louis black police union says racial bias real
ST. LOUIS — The president of a predominantly black St. Louis police union said Wednesday that the city prosecutor’s lawsuit is correct in pointing out...
‘OK, Boomer’ makes a Supreme Court appearance in age case
WASHINGTON — “OK, Boomer" made its first appearance in the Supreme Court Wednesday, invoked by baby boomer Chief Justice John Roberts 12 days before h...
Cannes does ‘right thing’ in appointing Spike Lee to lead
PARIS — American director Spike Lee will lead the jury of this year's Cannes Film Festival, the first black person to hold the post in the event's 73-...
Italian fashion world adopts manifesto promoting diversity
MILAN — The Italian National Fashion Chamber is promoting a diversity agenda among Milan’s major fashion houses, a year after several top Italian bran...
HUD seeks to roll back Obama rule on housing desegregation
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration took steps Tuesday to roll back an Obama-era rule intended to ensure that communities confront and address racia...
Big win for ‘ethical vegans’ in UK work tribunal
LONDON — British workers who practice “ethical veganism” to protect animals secured a big win in an employment tribunal when a judge ruled Friday that...
Poll: White evangelicals distinct on abortion, LGBT policy
White evangelical Protestants stand noticeably apart from other religious people on how the government should act on two of the most politically divis...
Congressman John Lewis says cancer is his latest battle
ATLANTA — As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 196...
Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on college campuses is raising the stakes of an al...
GOP Rep. pitches LGBTQ rights bill with religious exemptions
As Democrats champion anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community and Republicans counter with worries about safeguarding religious freedo...
Video game maker to pay $10 million in gender bias case
SAN FRANCISCO — The maker of popular video game League of Legends has agreed to pay $10 million to female employees to settle a broad gender discrimin...
Experts: Leadership key to changing anti-gay police culture
CLAYTON, Mo. — It is possible to change the police culture in St. Louis County, which was on the losing end of a $20 million jury award to a gay offic...
Judge grants USWNT class status in discrimination lawsuit
The U.S. women's national team has been granted class status in its lawsuit against U.S. Soccer that alleges gender discrimination in compensation and...
UN court says it has jurisdiction in Ukraine-Russia case
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In a legal victory for Kyiv, the United Nations' highest court ruled Friday that it has jurisdiction in a case brought by Ukr...
‘I was appalled’: Black customers say host told them to move
AURORA, Ill. — An attorney representing a group of black customers who say they were asked to change tables at a Chicago-area Buffalo Wild Wings becau...
Jamaican citizens sue exclusive Yellowstone Club over wages
HELENA, Mont. — Five Jamaican citizens who were recruited to work at a Montana ski resort for the ultra-rich just north of Yellowstone National Park s...