Civil Rights

Former Fort Myers City Council member, civil rights activist and community leader Veronica Shoemaker died Thursday from cardiac arrest. She was…

Ana Marrero pulls back her shirt sleeve and holds out her left arm. “Look, in Cuban prisons I tried on various occasions to kill myself with knives,”...

When Anthony McCann opened a thick manila envelope from the Department of Veterans Affairs last year, he expected to find his own medical records inside...

The Duval County school district is under review by the Department of Education's Civil Rights Office, according to a letter sent to Congresswoman...

Should employers be able to ask job seekers if they have a criminal record early on in the application process? That’s the fundamental question behind the…

A bipartisan effort is underway to relax Florida eligibility requirements for a wrongfully incarcerated inmate with a prior record to be compensated....

A state appeals court has ruled a Florida woman doesn’t have visitation rights to the children she was raising with her same-sex partner. Elizabeth Pasik…

Same-sex marriage is the law of the land, but the legal battle between Attorney General Pam Bondi and gay couples in Florida continues to drag on....

Same-sex marriage became legal in Florida in January following a U.S. District Court judge’s ruling that the state’s marriage ban violated the U.S.…

This week on Gulf Coast Live! we speak with Doris Weatherford, author of “They Dared To Dream: Florida Women Who Shaped History.” The book, published in…