civil rights

An abrupt policy change slashed sports opportunities for Black and Latino students

Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, passed away at 62 following a long battle with prostate cancer. His passing, announced by the King Center in Atlanta, occurred at...

A 46-year-old man who has been paralysed for 8 years on Monday chose deep sedation as a way to end his life. Euthanasia is illegal in Italy but recent court cases have acquitted people involved in assisted suicide, and the...

“I have never had any greed for power. Like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who fought for guaranteeing equal rights for everyone without any desire for personal gain, I have always believed in humanity and in equal rights, opportunities,...

On a societal scale, one of the fastest ways for two deeply entrenched, opposing groups to start seeing each other as fellow humans again is to give them something bigger to fight against together. “If aliens invaded, countries who hate...

Tenuti in schiavitù fino al 1865 e soggetti alla segregazione razziale – cioè alla separazione fisica dai bianchi – nel Sud fino alla promulgazione del Civil Rights Act del 1964, gli afroamericani sono rimasti a lungo esclusi dallo status civitatis...

It's 1989, PBS is producing a civil rights documentary titled "Eyes on the Prize II: Americans at the Racial Crossroads 1965-1985." William O'Neal's interview will remain his only testimony about the Black Panthers and the civil rights movements. The first...

"Normally, when you are one step away from a dictatorship or fascism, you see the difficulty of living in a democratic society, and you realize how important it is to be able to maintain a democratic system. However, democracy is...