We hope many of you can make it to Atlanta for what promises to be an engaging and inspiring weekend in the fight for human rights! The 2009 conference theme is "Dignity: All Rights for All People." You'll leave with ideas for activism to take home.

After marking 31years of sobriety in August, Don Coyhis considered retiring from the nonprofit organization he founded 21 years ago in Colorado Springs to help Native Americans overcome alcoholism, drug abuse and other health and social issues facing

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A cell phone video that shows police officers repeatedly hitting an unarmed university student with batons and a Taser gun has prompted a criminal investigation into the officers' conduct, a San Jose police spokesman said.

WINTHROP -- .Calling it a tragedy that must be remembered, members of the Natick Nipmuc and other local tribes gathered yesterday at Deer Island, a place many of their ancestors endured concentration camp conditions during King Philip's War.

BILLINGS, Mont. - In a celebration of life for those who survived cancer, as well as a time of somberness when remembering those who didn't, 50 Montana American Indian and local women received honorary shawls in a Pink Shawl Ceremony Oct. 2 to recognize

They are the keepers of the flame for more than 500 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada. And their crusade has become--for the moment, anyway--the whole country's crusade

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- New signs and markers along Arkansas' portions of the Trail of Tears should be erected by spring, officials said after President Barack Obama signed an act that expands the historic trail to more than 4,900 miles in nine states

SAN FRANCISCO -- An off-duty UCSF police officer was killed early today and a campus police dispatcher, his childhood friend from San Francisco's Excelsior district, was seriously injured when their car flew off an Interstate 280 off-ramp in the

A Lamar school district teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a student was arrested Friday after a three-hour standoff at his Sugar Land apartment, where police said he earlier held his family hostage and repeatedly stabbed his infant son

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians was arrested Friday for allegedly taking more than $250,000 in bribes from tribal vendors and misreporting his income to the federal government