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The National Association of Secretaries of State held a series of conversations about voter outreach efforts. This portion of the forum featured a panel discussion about voting registration…

David Savage spoke by phone about the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of a Christian baker from Colorado who refused for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.

Telephone lines and social media were open for viewer comments on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The Los Angeles Times' David Savage spoke by…

The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia hosted a debate about the Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On the panel was an attorney…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which concerns whether Colorado’s anti-discrimination law violated a baker’s First Amendment rights to…

Lauren Sklaroff talked about her book Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). In her book she examines New Deal…

From the 2018 National Black Writers Conference, authors discussed the state of publishing for black writers.

Community leaders, historians, and policymakers participated in a discussion on the 50th anniversary of Federal Housing Act and its aim to prevent discrimination in the housing industry.…

Human Rights Campaign press secretary Sarah McBride discusses her life as a transgender person and LGBTQ rights. She is interviewed by Vanita Gupta, former head of the U.S. Department of…

Former officials from the Departments of Justice and Education took part in a forum on hate crimes. Also speaking was a former FBI special agent who talked about her experiences working in the…

Legal and policy experts talked about the increase in hate crimes against transgenders, immigrants, and those of certain religious groups, and why many of these crimes go unreported.…

BookTV visits Black Classic Press and talks to its founder and director Paul Coates.

Neal Katyal and Randy Barnett talked about the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The landmark case concerns a medical school applicant who claimed he was rejected…

In Out: A Courageous Woman’s Journey, Lou Anne Smoot shared the struggle of hiding her homosexuality in Texas for 60 years and how she built the courage to come out. C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles…

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress talked about one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s first civil rights cases and his ideas to change the way the NAACP fought for equal rights…

Administrators and students reacted to the Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which upheld the concept of affirmative action but struck down the use…

National Urban League President and CEO Marc Morial talked about the findings of the 2018 State of Black America report.

The 2018 National Black Writers Conference’s awards program features David Levering Lewis, Kwame Dawes, Colson Whitehead, and more.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held a news conference on the release of its 2018 civil rights report, which found that anti-Muslim bias incidents and hate crimes increased in…

Former professional basketball player and author Etan Thomas talked about his book, We Matter: Athletes and Activism, a series of interviews Mr. Thomas conducted on the interaction between…