civil rights

How does a stupid and ridiculous lie come to be embraced and promulgated by top officials of the United States government? Well, as it turns out, it's...

ALBANY — The Justice Department has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into government-run nursing homes in New York over their COVID-19...

Editor’s Note: This commentary, the result of a collaboration between the Olean Times Herald and interviewer Marcia Kelly, gives voice to area residen...

CHICAGO (TNS) — We should thank Donald Trump for skipping Congressman John Lewis’ farewell ceremony. While his absence from the memorial in the Capito...

Editor’s Note: While studying human and civil rights in Cari Matejka’s fifth-grade class at Olean Intermediate Middle School, students wrote comprehen...

In the last six months we have witnessed two high-profile stories about public figures who were accused of engaging in inappropriate or even illegal a...

BUFFALO — Salamanca police settled a civil rights lawsuit filed by a Salamanca man who claimed officers unlawfully arrested and questioned him about h...

We can fill our heads with all manner of ideas as to when that spark from the Hand of God has put into the motion the continuance of the very miracle ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — In the spring of 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had won victories on desegregation and voting rights and had been plannin...

President Obama did a lot of bad things, but pound for pound, one of the worst was the January 2014 "Dear Colleague" letter sent jointly by his Educat...

OLEAN — The Olean City School District Board of Education plans to further review policy updates to their sexual harassment and other Office for Civil...

OLEAN — Whether it is called prejudice, racism, implicit bias or white privilege, treating people differently because of race, religion or culture sti...

BUFFALO — A 22-year-old Salamanca man convicted last year of misdemeanor assault in a 2013 incident has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Salamanca...

One would think that 53 years after the passage of of the landmark Civil Rights Act, and years of civil rights promotion, bigotry and racism would be ...

OLEAN — Several dozen teachers and community members marched together to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday morning and vow their commitmen...

ISCHUA — Lawyers for a man accused of growing almost 700 marijuana plants a year ago tried to claim the drug’s legal classification violated his civil...