Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Cheryl Robinson covers areas of leadership, pivoting and careers. Storytelling goes beyond simply raising awareness for a ...

Should the ability to read be considered a civil right? Many people across the country would answer yes, and some say reading is, in fact, one of the most important civil-rights issues of our time. As ...

There are a lot of things 12-year-old G likes about school. She likes gym class; she likes to help other students; she likes to craft with her teacher. But when you ask what she doesn't like, G ...

Almost 73 years ago, Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore died after a bomb placed beneath the bedroom floor of their Mims home exploded — on Christmas. Nearly 70 years would pass before children in ...

It was obvious to Christine Smith Olsey that her son was not doing well at school, despite educators telling her to leave it to the experts. The second-grade student stumbled over words, and other ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

Children’s book from author Sharon Sexton teaches youth about the Civil Rights Movement in Detroit. The children’s book, “MLK Jr.'s Detroit Dream: Memoir of a Civil Rights Foot Soldier,” from ...

Many of the office’s cases over the decades have served as a catalyst for broader policy change and social reforms. By Michael C. Bender and Rachel Nostrant Reporting from Washington Decades ago, ...

Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental piece of legislation that forever changed the nature of race and gender in American ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Saying the Trump administration is sabotaging civil rights ...

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...