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After vandalism reports involving graffiti at a few mosques in Texas and California, Muslim leaders there have stepped up existing efforts to keep their sacred spaces and community members safe. The incidents add to what many American Muslims say has already been a charged climate amid the fallout in the U.S. of the Israel-Hamas war. After the war started, Muslim and Jewish civil rights groups have said that there’s an upsurge of reports of harassment, bias and physical assaults against members of their communities. Leaders in affected Muslim communities have praised the support they've received from allies in their aftermath of the reported vandalism incidents.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Black man who was shown on video being punched and dragged from his car by Florida deputies during a traffic stop …
A video showing Florida deputies punching and dragging a Black man from his car during a traffic stop has sparked nationwide outrage, with civ…
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The release involves an estimated 200,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977. King’s family, including his two living children, Martin III and Bernice, were given advance notice of the release and had their own teams reviewing the records ahead of the public disclosure. The release is part of President Donald Trump’s order to publicly disclose government files on King and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
Florida's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the state's current congressional redistricting map, rejecting a challenge over the elimination of …
People quickly filed in to in Rehoboth Beach to cause some good trouble Thursday evening. Good trouble is a saying famously used by civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis who passed away on July 17, 2020. Lewis was a civil rights leader, politician, minister and agent of change for decades.
FILE - Marc Morial, center, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League, talks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, July 8, 2021, following a meeting with President Joe Biden and leadership of top civil rights organizations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination pol…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Tuesday grilled the leaders of Georgetown University, the City University of New York and the Universit…