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The first time many people concerned with LGBT rights learned about the Mormon Church’s anti-LGBT activism was in 2008, when it played a major role in winning passage of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure repealing same sex marriage in the state. But the Mormon Church’s organizing against LGBT rights dates back even earlier, to Hawaii in the 1990s, and it took lessons from that campaign, including its use of secrecy, all the way to California.

The exposure of widespread sex abuse by Roman Catholic clergy—and of the subsequent cover-ups by church leaders—has rocked the Catholic church. Less well known, though closely analogous, is the issue of abuse within Protestant evangelical churches.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni is visiting Texas this weekend to meet with members of the local business community who are interested in Uganda. Local activists, however, have no intention of letting his history of human rights violations go unnoticed.

The character of the Black bourgeoisie developed within the context of white cultural oppression. The values identified by Black conservatives are hallmarks of both American conservative mythology and Black bourgeois mythology.

Silence, evasion, and cover-ups remain the characteristic responses of evangelical leaders to abuse within their communities. The latest example of this culture of avoidance may be Bob Jones University.

To understand how the Right builds support by “mobilizing resentment,” it’s worth examining how an obscure libertarian group was able to get the usually complacent voters of Baltimore County to rally to illegally redline Section 8 voucher holders out of t

The anti-LGBT laws in Uganda have an external influencer: The U.S. Christian Right.

The criminal justice system deploys a variety of methods to deny incarcerated people their rights to have children, and because mass incarceration is a racist project, African American people bear the brunt of this punishment.

The conference marked another episode in the Right’s ongoing campaign attacking women’s bodily autonomy and access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare.

The intelligence lapses that failed to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks prompted an overhaul of U.S. domestic and foreign intelligence systems, including the creation of an expansive new domestic security infrastructure. A key part of this new infrastructure is the Suspicious Activity Reporting initiative, a framework that guides, orchestrates, and connects the federal government’s nationwide “Information Sharing Environment.”