The notoriously conservative Fifth Circuit will rule on whether it's a civil rights violation to deny a quadriplegic man a ...

RHS teacher Donna Avino and local historian and artist Bill Batson teamed up to create the Rockland County Civic Survey Project.

President Donald Trump recently ordered federal agencies not to enforce laws that prohibit policies and practices with ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during ...

The Trump administration has shifted staff and undertaken a series of policy changes at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights ...

including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal dollars. Families, teachers and community members typically file a ...

Founded in 1957 following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the division initially focused on protecting the voting rights of Black Americans. Over the decades that followed, Congress expanded its ...

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights is classifying all new gender identity-related discrimination cases as its lowest priority, essentially ...

A pregnant street vendor who was allegedly attacked by a woman in Simi Valley has filed a civil rights lawsuit, claiming the incident was a hate crime. The attorneys for Mary B. announced the ...

SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — A Spokane Valley man is suing the Spokane Valley Police Department and one of its officers after he was dragged from his car and thrown to the ground in October 2023. The ...

Civil rights advocacy groups and lawmakers characterized the administrative leave decision as a serious blow to U.S. civil rights enforcement. Deborah Vagins, national campaign director at Equal ...