civil rights

Tensions escalated and tempers flared at two competing demonstrations around a statue of Christopher Columbus at a downtown park on Saturday. About a half…

In 2020, Americans have turned out to protest both coronavirus shutdown orders and police brutality. Recent protests in honor of George Floyd have drawn…

At first it seemed the global pandemic could be a unifying moment; a universal experience to bring us all together. But with each passing week, the virus…

With primary runoffs on the horizon and a presidential election later this year, will the way Texans register to vote and cast ballots be modified to fit…

Lowery got his start as an activist organizing bus boycotts in 1950s Alabama. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades and prayed at Barack Obama's first inauguration.

An archive of the history of Mexican American civil rights is coming to Our Lady of the Lake University on San Antonio’s West Side.The National Institute…

Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to city's East Side for today's Martin Luther King Jr. march. Events began at 8 a.m. with a church service at…

Thousands of people are expected to participate in San Antonio’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day march -- the largest in the United States -- on the city's…

It was on September first that over 800 new laws went into effect in Texas, including ten new gun laws that made it easier for owning and open carrying…

Hundred brutally beaten and even murdered by Texas Rangers. Civic rights, such as voting and serving on a jury, denied — all remnants of an era of…