The renewed focus on passing the Equal Rights Amendment can be, at least partially, credited to the #MeToo movement. Not only ...

Critics have accused the government of overseeing restrictions on women’s rights and not doing enough to tackle violence ... for better access to gender-specific health care, equal pay and other ...

The African American movement for equal rights had been building for years. The Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 that segregated educational facilities were inherently ...

Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s ... and was a full-throated advocate of equal voting rights for women. A little over a year after Morris’s 1847 ...

HBO's docuseries, inspired by Henry Hampton's seminal civil rights documentary, picks up where he left off, taking us through the Obama presidency and to the brink of the first Trump administration.

The ongoing struggle in America for racial equality has its roots in the trade of enslaved people, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years ... realization of women’s empowerment and gender equality—protecting the rights and improving ...

Somewhere along the way, the word “feminist” got a bad reputation. It has been twisted into something extreme, something ...

Women across the world will call for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs during demonstrations marking International Women's Day on Saturday. Officially ...

International Women's Day Protests Demand Equal Rights and an End to Discrimination ... the traditional color of the women's liberation movement. In Russia, the women's day celebrations had ...