civil rights

On March 25, 1931, Illinois, and the nation, mourned the loss of suffragist and civil rights icon Ida B. Wells. But before she became a crusader for…

In May, the Department of Education made sweeping changes to Title IX regulations.The new regulations change the definition of what qualifies as sexual…

Illinois is joining a chorus of states condemning a Trump administration proposal to rollback protections for transgender people under the Affordable Care…

The Illinois Primary is fast approaching, and early voting has already begun. Election Protection, a national nonpartisan coalition, is offering a…

School officials in a suburban Chicago district may back out of a deal with the U.S. Department of Education allowing a transgender student to use a…

Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important milestones in America's civil rights movement: on August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King,…