Human Rights

Nearly half of those who responded to a poll said a lot more needs to be done before people in the United States would "be judged not by the …

As the country marks Martin Luther King Jr.'s 85th birthday, a veteran activist explains why it would be a mistake to remember King as only a great civil rights …

Historian of US surveillance practices, Alfred McCoy, points out that what the NSA has set up, despite the blowback it's now causing, is irresistible to Washington.

King became an icon of pacifism, but he also believed in confrontational direct action.

The wealth possessed by our nation's 400 richest billionaires is equal to the collective net worth of all African-American households.

Young Baltimore activist Dayvon Love tells Paul Jay how MLK's teaching that American blacks must be anti-imperialist, changed his life.

The official US beatification of Martin Luther King has come at the heavy price of silence about his radical espousal of economic justice and anticolonialism.

Jessica Gonzalez: As US Court of Appeals rules against net neutrality, internet service providers will restrict access for communities of color.

Human rights and civil liberties groups gathered opposite the White House at noon to demand President Obama honor his many promises to close the prison.

In this age of utter cynicism, little is sacred, little is off-limits from humor, little is safe from the cultural tide of callous abuse.