Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The most important civil rights legislation in a century,...
Colbert Move To CBS Sparks Breitbart Editor To Claim Acting Like A Conservative Is Racist For years conservatives have been claiming that the battle to win...
var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true}; The Indiana House Judiciary Committee this morning heard testimony on a bill that would write a ban on same-sex marriage directly into...
President Barack Obama was a surprise stand-in for Vice President Joe Biden, and Jennifer Lopez was the recipient of the 2013 Ally for Equality Award, at...
Professor Katherine Franke takes on the thorny issues of how divorce between gay and lesbian couples will confront stereotypical notions of gender and what that could...
Speaker of the House John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor were both invited to speak at Wednesday’s “Let Freedom Ring” celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary...
U.S. Senator Rand Paul delivered a speech to students at Howard University, an historically African-American college — which was possibly brave, since the Kentucky Tea Party/Republican...
National debates on whether gays should indeed have civil rights—and if so, which ones—continue to inspire threads of passionate comments at a wide variety of online...
“Mitt Gets Worse” is a super PAC partnership between two progressive icons –Â American Bridge 21st Century and Courage Campaign — “that aims to educate voters about...
Rush Limbaugh today strongly suggested that (what he claims is) President Obama‘s “constant warfare on bosses and so forth might have led this guy to pull...
Reverend William Owens, a well-known African-American pastor who identifies himself as “a religious liaison for the National Organization For Marriage,” says men having sex with dogs is...
Yesterday, Mitt Romney spoke to the NAACP and got booed for nearly 20 seconds when he promised the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization he...
➤ “I think we expected that,” Mitt Romney claimed of the 18 seconds of sustained booing he received from the NAACP when he promised to repeal Obamacare....
Alveda King, the niece of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., says that if you support same-sex marriage equality, you’re going to hell. Your...
Paul Ryan today said that preventing same-sex marriage is part of America’s “universal human values.” Ryan made these comments to supporters, amid a a three-day bus...