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

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 ...

successfully proved at trial that the state House and Senate maps enacted after the 2020 Census diluted Black voting strength in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court directed ...

Though launched with the noble intention of stopping racial discrimination, Caldwell argued, the Civil Rights Act--and the bureaucracy it spawned ... desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, in ...

From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights activists have shaped the conscience of nations and redrawn the maps of moral ... the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting ...

There are poignant, even delicious ironies in this feat. If Thurmond had been successful in his opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and, later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting ...

The previous record was held by a raging racist named Strom Thurmond, who stood for over 24 hours protesting the Civil Rights Act in 1957. The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil ...

the avowed segregationist from South Carolina who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker said he’d been aware of Thurmond’s record since first coming to the Senate in 2013 — a ...

Strom Thurmond in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Today, it was passed by @SenBooker, a Member of the Congressional Black Caucus in the spirit of “Good Trouble.” “These are not ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey broke the record Tuesday for the longest speech on the Senate floor in U.S. history. His remarks, which focused on what he called a governmental “crisis” ...

Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. AP explains why he did it. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren) El Salvador President Bukele says he won't be releasing a Maryland man back to ...

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.