An Inside Look At The Women's March On Washington
The solidarity movement is for women's and civil rights and one, if not the biggest showings, is expected in Washington, D.C.
Watch CBS News
The solidarity movement is for women's and civil rights and one, if not the biggest showings, is expected in Washington, D.C.
Two days after saying it would be unnecessary for the U.S. Justice Department to add the city's Law Department to its probe of the Police Department's use of force, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said his administration would order a "third-party" review of the agency.
The U.S. Department of Justice wants Chicago to know exactly how to submit complaints about the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the release of the Laquan McDonald shooting video and has distributed those details to community leaders.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel was meeting with officials from the Justice Department on Thursday, as federal authorities continue a civil rights probe of the Chicago Police Department's use of force.
Justice Department officials were meeting with the top brass of the Chicago Police Department, the first step in what's likely to be a prolonged investigation of the CPD's policies and procedures regarding the use of force.
U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon's office is expected to assist the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division as it embarks on an investigation that could outlast the Obama administration.
African-American state lawmakers have asked the Justice Department to expand its civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department to include the Independent Police Review Authority and Cook County State's Attorney's office.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department, in the wake of the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
A day after calling Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's call for a Justice Department investigation of the Chicago Police Department's use of force "misguided," Mayor Rahm Emanuel reversed course, saying he is open to a federal probe of systemic issues at CPD.
A group of retired black Chicago police officers has joined the call for a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department's practices, saying the Laquan McDonald case illustrates a problem with racism on the police force.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday said he has no plans to resign amid pressure stemming from the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, and said he thinks it would be "misguided" to open a federal civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department, with federal prosecutors already looking into the shooting.
Civil rights pioneers were in downstate Illinois on Tuesday, after being honored in Chicago Monday night for their work since they ended racial segregation at an all-white school in Arkansas decades ago.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder warned Thursday that he would veto religious objections legislation unless lawmakers also send him a bill extending anti-discrimination protections to gays.
At 4 feet 11, she was lovingly she was called "the little warrior" and her stories remain larger than life and continue to make an impact today.
Barrow was one of the founders of the Chicago chapter of Operation Breadbasket, which became Operation PUSH. Barrow had been hospitalized for more than a week with a blood clot in her lung.
Willie T. Barrow, 90, helped found Operation PUSH and has made a mark in Chicago.
Cities across the nation will be celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend but some hold a more historical significance than others.
Steven G. Zamiar, 46, has been indicted for allegedly beating two different people in separate incidents.
One of the most widely used streets on the South Side could be in for a big change.
A veteran of Chicago's civil rights movement said Wednesay's commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington highlights how far African Americans have come in this country, and how far they still have to go.
Chicago's DuSable Museum of African American History hosted a re-enactment of the March onWashington fifty years ago, reports WBBM's Mike Krauser.
Willie Louis was considered an unsung hero of the civil rights movement for testifying against the two white men charged with killing Till.
State Street between 49th and 50th outside DuSable High School is now honorarily named Dr. Timuel Black Street.
It is not news when Republicans try to block access to the ballot box for poor, minority and elderly voters. What is unusual is that Republicans are admitting it.
Unfortunately, political poll after political poll reveals that the presidential election of 2012 has much to do – in fact, more to do – with the race of the presidential candidate than most anything else.
