El Salvador president’s popularity soars with controversial approach to crime

A 3-year-old held up by Canada’s no-fly list? His parents say it’s ‘ridiculous.’

Bio shows how Josephine Baker ‘shattered notions’ of black artistry

Meet the winner of the ‘Nobel for human rights’ that Egypt doesn’t want you to know about

President Trump, do you plan to prosecute those who give aid or shelter to undocumented immigrants?

How some immigrant student activists are tapping the civil rights playbook

Japanese Americans remember a dark chapter when they were ‘more number than name’

New immigration policies are convincing more Japanese Americans to engage in the radical act of remembering

My dad was strip-searched at the airport last weekend — and it’s a wake-up call for us all

The US has already tried registering Muslims. It didn’t work.

How bigotry crushed the dreams of an all-black Little League team

The Department of Justice will stop contracting with private prison companies, but immigration officials won’t follow suit

Asian American activists get busy after a former NYPD officer gets probation

From segregation to social change, how the Rosie the Riveter era fit into a century’s arc

Are we reliving the candidacy of George Wallace through Donald Trump?

Families of police shooting victims form bonds built on loss

Of racism, redemption and forgiveness: George Wallace’s daughter tries to right her father’s wrongs

Journalist: Black activists need black-only spaces. Here’s why we should respect that.

Breaking the blue wall of silence: A quest for police transparency

The future of the Internet as a place for an open exchange of ideas is very much up in the air

Why Saudi Arabia is so afraid of Raif Badawi

After battling ISIS, Kurds find new foe in Facebook

California takes a big step to equalizing pay between men and women

Remembering the life of trailblazer Grace Lee Boggs

Banned Books Week celebrates the books that are ‘filthy, but great’ — and more

Diplomats at the UN this week will be greeted by faces of women persecuted around the world

In one of his final interviews, Julian Bond explained the animus toward Obama

Remembering Julian Bond, the voice of ‘Eyes on the Prize’

Raising the American flag in Cuba does little to raise the hopes of Cuban dissidents

Michael Brown, one year later: The tragic civil rights moment that ignited a movement

President Barack Obama will be a tough act to follow in Africa

Elaborate rituals and lions roaming the palace grounds are just part of what sets autocratic Ethiopia apart from its neighbors

Meet two women who are the first female pilots in their countries

In the US, domestic hate groups look to radicalize followers online and on campus

When Belarus closed its last liberal arts school, the university went into exile

You think coerced marriages aren’t a problem for women in the US? Think again

A Havana journalism professor is testing the limits of media freedom in fast-changing Cuba

The promise of the Arab Spring inspired these women to stand up, despite the threats they faced

USA Freedom Act co-sponsor calls the bill a good step — but says more must be done

China now targeting moms of Tiananmen victims to erase memory of its bloody crackdown

Despite the thaw in US-Cuba relations, one Havana artist says she’s been ‘silenced as a lesson’

Does France’s ‘burqa ban’ protect — or persecute?

Another blogger — the third this year — is hacked to death in Bangladesh

Spying? Press freedom groups lambaste Iran’s charges against US reporter

How the forgotten music of the civil rights movement was hiding in plain sight

Wife of jailed opposition leader in Venezuela wants more help from the US

Singapore’s controversial founding father dies at age 91

How JFK made NASA his secret weapon in the fight for civil rights in America

Pope Francis says religious freedom trumps the right to free speech

The Gambia is the worst dictatorship you’ve probably never heard of

New trial ordered for three journalists in prison in Cairo

The end of Colbert stings even more as the ‘The Interview’ gets canceled

Turkey rounds up journalists but insists it’s not cracking down on press freedom

China’s Internet censor-in-chief gets a warm welcome at Facebook headquarters

Harvard researchers went undercover to reveal Chinese censorship tactics on the Internet

Transitioning to being a woman while serving in Afghanistan was like ‘puberty in a combat zone’

Europeans can now request information about themselves be removed from the web

Ever wonder how South Africa’s former leaders justified apartheid?

Here’s what else was going on in the world when Kennedy was assassinated