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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered an address at George Mason University’s campus in Alexandria, Virginia, on enforcement of Title IX, which promotes gender equality and provides protections…

Feminist Majority Foundation president Eleanor Smeal talked about the Trump administration’s decision to review Obama-era rules on sexual assault policy on college campuses.

Gretchen Carlson talked about her book, Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back.

Michelle Alexander talked about her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, in which she argues that the “get tough on crime” policies that began in the early…

Justin Sochacki gave a tour of Monroe Elementary School, one of the four formerly segregated schools for African Americans in Topeka, Kansas, and talked about the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court…

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu talked about the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu V. United States, in which the court ruled 6-3 that Japanese internment camps were necessary for the…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with sexual assault survivors, men’s rights advocates and education officials as part of an evaluation of Obama administration policies regarding sexual…

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group held a press conference expressing their disapproval of an Education Department official’s remarks regarding…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wells Fargo v. Miami, which was consolidated with Bank of America v. Miami. The cases concern whether the city of Miami can sue the banks under the Fair Housing Act…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions vowed to prosecute federal hate crimes including those against transgender people at the Justice Department’s hate crimes summit. According to a new report from the Bureau of…

Stuart Taylor, co-author of The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities, examines campus sexual assault policies. In his book, Mr. Taylor argues that federal…

Defense officials briefed reporters on military sexual assault, including what the Pentagon was doing to prevent assaults, investigate incidents, and support victims. Sexual assaults in the…

Timothy Tyson talked about his book The Blood of Emmett Till, in which he recalls the life and death of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year old African-American, who was tortured and killed in…

Panelists talked about civil rights and the Supreme Court. Panelists included Adam Cohen, author of Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck,…

Kristen Green talked about her book, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle. In the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the Court…

Criminal justice and civil rights officials reflected on their eight years of work in the Obama administration. They addressed work they believe still needs to be done, and the changes they hope…

Actor George Takei, CNN Commentator Van Jones, and Khizr Khan, father of Purple Heart recipient Army Captain Humayun Khan, delivered keynote remarks at the banquet of the Muslim Public Affairs…

Panelist talked about ways to counter violent extremism (CVE) efforts across the U.S. without further stigmatizing Muslims and other marginalized groups. The panelists gave presentations on the use of body…

Professor Kelly Oliver talked about her book, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape. She spoke at the 28th annual Southern Festival of Books in Nashville.…

A Republican presidential campaign adviser,a former faith adviser to President Obama, historian Mary Frances Berry and others talked about President Obama’s legacy during his time in office. “Obama’s Legacy:…