Witness: The Civil Rights Blog

As our history demonstrates, while governments may change, our values do not — and the coalition will not back down in the face of threats.

2025 Inauguration Day and MLK Day — which share a date this year — are both powerful reminders that the work to protect and defend civil rights is worth it.

Together, we must envision and build a higher education ecosystem where we all thrive.

We will never forget them — and we will never stop working to honor their legacies and carry their work forward.

Despite the strides we've made towards racial and gender equity, we continue to see mass resistance to achievements like the 2024 Title IX rule with the same oppositional rhetoric and exclusionary motivations of the past.

Trump’s implementation of Project 2025 threatens to return our country to a pre-VRA era, where voters of color are prevented from full participation in our political process through devious and harmful tactics.

We must fight against inflammatory and ill-intentioned rhetoric, policies, and judicial decisions against people simply trying to authentically live their lives.

Here’s what you need to know ahead of the Supreme Court’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti on December 4.