The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

Civil Rights Act aimed to prevent workplace discrimination. Trump says it promotes bias and will stop enforcing it.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

President Donald Trump's executive order seeks to eliminate racial quotas and preferences, aligning with the original intent ...

When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that ...

A new bill from a top Democrat seeks to close a loophole that federal judges have used to collect pension benefits despite ...

The actual Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 document and pen is on display in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., July 1, 2004. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...

The 60-year-old landmark Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in public ... but was signed into law in August of 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. Civil rights activists said the law and its ...