President Barack Obama says the music of the civil rights era helped fuel freedom marches then and equality today. Obama on Tuesday night welcomed an all-star lineup of musicians to the White House to perform songs from the era. Obama says protest songs, spirituals and ...

Facing another wintry wallop, the White House decided to move a concert celebrating civil rights music from Wednesday to Tuesday to beat what could be a second crippling storm in a week. The White House announced that Wednesday's concert would be performed on Tuesday because ...

A Muslim group filed a federal civil rights complaint Friday after a Southern California mayor remarked that he was "growing a Christian community" in a state of the city address last week. In a letter to the U.S. Justice Department, the Council on American-Islamic ...

Egyptian activists have protested in front of parliament and called for legislation giving Christians equal rights as Muslims to build houses of worship. The demonstrators, both Muslim and Christian, were also protesting Wednesday against the sectarian strains in the country, particularly in light of a Christmas Eve ...