When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued ...

On April 28, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 409-2 to pass S.146, the Take it Down Act. The bill aims to stop ...

The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making ...

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

Teachers and students can access the most recent History Subject Syllabus in PDF format from this page, which also includes ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

The 1965 rally featuring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew a crowd of 20,000. At Saturday’s event, several hundred ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive ...

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step ...

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the federal government.  One of the executive ...

To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...