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 ...

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 ...

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

Memos show the division has abandoned a mission of enforcing laws against discrimination in hiring, housing and voting rights ...

We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half ... And its hiring preferences may have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits ...

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 places ... but was signed into law in August of 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. Civil rights activists said the law ...