Civil Rights

Campaign signs are placed outside a polling precinct open for early voting in Akron, Ohio.

Plans To Watch Polls For Fraud Raise Fears Of Intimidation

6:48pm October 31, 2016

by Pam Fessler

The head of one effort asked supporters "to go and hunt down, look for vote fraud and voter intimidation and document it, to do the best we can to stop it this election."

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Chicago residents cast early ballots on Tuesday for the Nov. 8 election.

Will The New Era Of Limited Federal Monitoring Still Protect Voter Rights?

5:24pm October 19, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

The Justice Department will still send out "monitors" on Nov. 8. But the number is smaller than in the past, and due to a 2013 Supreme Court decision, they'll have limited authority to intervene.

World News

Ghana Wants To Remove Statue Of Gandhi Over Racism Controversy

4:49pm October 07, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Professors campaigned to have the statue at the University of Ghana removed over Mohandas Gandhi's "racist identity." Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it wants to move it — for its protection.

Politics & Government

Backlash After Civil Rights Museum Denies Trump Request

11:41am October 07, 2016

by Bethany Chafin

Greensboro's International Civil Rights Museum is receiving backlash after it refused a request last month by the Trump campaign. The museum is standing by its decision.

Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. Bodyguard Dies at 93

6:05pm September 05, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Dabney Montgomery served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airman in Italy in World War II. He joined the civil rights movement when he came home, and protected King during the march from Selma.

The Justice Department released a report Wednesday morning that was highly critical of the Baltimore Police Department for systematically stopping, searching and arresting the city's black residents, frequently without grounds for doing so.

DOJ's Withering Baltimore Report Says 'What Black Folks Have Been Saying For Decades'

6:45pm August 12, 2016

by Leah Donnella

"I don't know people who weren't aware of the stats that were just published. ... We already know the score," says D. Watkins, an author and journalist who grew up in the city.

The NBA is relocating the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte, N.C., because of a state law that limits civil rights protections for LGBT people.

NBA Will Pull 2017 All-Stars Game From Charlotte Over N.C. 'Bathroom Bill'

6:35pm July 21, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The controversial state law limits civil rights protections for LGBT people; the league says it can't host the All-Star game in that climate. A new location for the game hasn't yet been announced.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the NAACP National Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 18, 2016.

Clinton On Police Murders: 'This Madness Has To Stop'

6:44pm July 18, 2016

Speaking to the NAACP annual convention, Clinton spoke of bringing "the full weight of the law" against those who kill officers and confronting racial bias.

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In this picture released by the FBI and the State of Mississippi Attorney General's Office, the burned-out station wagon that slain civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were driving in is seen in June 1964 in the Bogue C

National

Officials Close Investigation Into 1964 'Mississippi Burning' Killings

2:16pm June 21, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Three young Freedom Summer activists were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan 52 years ago. At the time, no one was charged with murder, but since the case was reopened one man has been prosecuted.

American boxer and world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali throws a long right to British challenger Henry Cooper's injured left eye in the sixth round of their world heavyweight championship fight.

Sports

On Muhammad Ali's Complicated Contradictions, And How He Changed Boxing

12:52pm June 10, 2016

"Ali was a black man who was not concerned with what white America thought of him."