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My daughter was 8 months old on November 9, 2016. In the blink of an eye, it felt like our country was overflowing with the potential for progress in the name of gender equality to sink to oppressive lows on how I thought about what a…

Rev. Cordy Tindell "CT" Vivian stood on the steps of a courthouse, advocating the right of every person to vote with "verbal nudges" if a sheriff literally pushed, hit and knocked him or her to the…

Right activist Ginni Thomas, who happens to be married to Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court Justice, posted what she believed to be an apologetic apology to a group email list of her husband's former clerks. In that apology, Thomas says…

The House of Representatives and the Senate, both under Democratic control at the time, passed President Dwight D. Eisenhower's proposed civil rights bill that established the Department of Civil Rights in…

As we've blogged before here, here, and here, Oregon lawmakers passed a Paid Family and Sick Leave (PFML) Bill in 2019 that gives Oregon employees up to 12 weeks of paid vacation for a specified purpose, payroll tax; Oregon employers…

According to a new study that found that 87% of the world's population lived in countries deemed “closed”, “oppressed” or “disabled”, the state of civil liberties around the world is bleak.This corresponds to an increase of 4% compared to…

On November 23, 2020, the news from reputable news sources NPR and Reuters was published in Cairo that Gasser Abdel Razek, one of the three leaders of the Egyptian initiative for personal rights, was being consistently held in solitary…