civil rights

A coalition of business and civil rights leaders is expanding an effort to lobby Michigan's Legislature to make it illegal to discriminate against gay and…

By now everyone knows, or at least thinks they know, something about Michael Brown. He was, of course, the unarmed black teenager shot to death by a white…

A mentally handicapped Dearborn man plans to sue the city for alleged police brutality.28-year-old Ali Beydoun was stopped by police while riding his bike…

In the spring of 1973, Ray Robinson left his wife and three young children in BogueChitto, Alabama to support the occupation of Wounded Knee, South…

We are one week, halfway through, the trial in federal court in Detroit centering on the challenge to Michigan’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.…

In 1963, Michigan voters approved a new state constitution which set up the first Civil Rights Commission in U.S. history.The Commission works to ensure…

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights was created as part of the state constitution drafted in 1963. It’s charged with enforcing civil rights laws and…

Civil rights activists say they’re not done trying to get justice for Trayvon Martin.They have actions planned in Detroit and around the country to push…

Michigan’s state constitutional amendment barring racial preferences in university admissions and other public institutions might be the next major case…

Michigan State House Speaker Jase Bolger (R-Marshall) could be opening the door to extending civil rights protections to gays and lesbians. That would…