Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women's rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, ...

Cecile Richards died Monday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement.

The women who helped advance the Civil Rights Movement were honored during an ecumenical service held by the Sacred Heart ...

Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Organizations across the region commemorated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. over the weekend, with one event in ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

At the John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center Monday morning, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Westside Coalition ...

I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth, strangely not addressed quite ...

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to ... houses of Congress had 153 women (28 percent ...

Though King is a singular figure in the nation's history, the civil rights movement was ... multiple segments follow King's activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, the passage of ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and longest-lived former commander-in-chief, has died at the age of 100. In February of this year, Carter made the decision to begin in-home ...