For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Gabe Gonzalez, volunteer and organizer with Protect RP joins John Williams to talk about the ICE raids that have been taking ...

The organization is a Latino advocacy nonprofit, packing bright yellow vests, drums, and signs, attracting attention to the ...

Driscoll was the day supervisor in the AP’s Chicago bureau in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the bureau didn’t have a news editor. This made him the day-to-day leader in the newsroom at a time ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city will continue to protect civil and human rights, a day after the mayor received a letter ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important ...

Across New York, exhibitions highlighting the work of activists, from the mostly unknown to the iconic, offer hope, ...

Immigrant advocacy groups in Chicago filed a lawsuit Saturday morning against the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over planned deportation raids.

The Trump administration’s long-promised “largest mass deportation operation” in U.S. history, which was announced to begin ...

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.