Sacramento State students Julieanna Flores (left), Kathy Martinez (center left) and Rebeca Orozco-Chavez (right) stand with civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez, who spoke to students and faculty ...

“We almost beat one guy to death to make him kiss the flag,” a patriot in Litchfield, Illinois, told a Chicago reporter in 1940. When that vigilante beat a dissenter in the street—and when hundreds ...

A group of students from Jefferson High School gathers around the tour guide, Jewish grandmother Diane Treister, at the Museum of Tolerance on a recent Friday morning. While Treister talks about ...

HELENA, Mont. Alarmed by evidence that gay and lesbian students are common victims of schoolyard bullies, many school districts are bolstering their antiharassment rules with early lessons in ...

With the first black president-elect, the United States has made a leap forward in dealing with extreme prejudice, but to think that intolerance over race, gender or sexual orientation is history ...

Planned lessons on LGBT tolerance at a San Francisco Bay Area middle school have sparked outrage from parents who call the material inappropriate or insensitive to "those with religious, cultural and ...