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

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

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

But, of course, the Democratic Party is not an educational institution or a corporation or a tax-exempt organization but a ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

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 ...

would dismantle disparate impact liability — a legal theory codified in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that holds agencies accountable for practices that have an outsized ...

To that end, it starts the process of repealing disparate-impact regulations accreted to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subsequent administrations and requires the cataloguing of state laws that ...

President Donald Trump swung his executive wrecking ball on Wednesday at a key component of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a move that threatens decades of anti-discrimination efforts.

And its hiring preferences may have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination in hiring unless the employer can fit one of a few narrow exceptions—which ...

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

which includes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 and limited English proficiency, according to ...