Witness: The Civil Rights Blog

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.

The authority to grant clemency is one of a president's most significant constitutional powers, helping to recognize the power of rehabilitation and second chances and advancing racial justice by rectifying unjust and inequitable sentences.

The September 30 convening represented a first step toward a robust, ongoing working relationship between the disability community and government agencies tasked with collecting data on disability.

It's been a year since the AI executive order. While it was a step in the right direction for AI safeguards, we can’t allow it to be the end of the story.