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

Union leaders rally for International Workers Day, highlighting the intersection of civil rights and worker rights. A legacy of solidarity and justice.

It has been 70 years since Baltimore made history with the first peaceful sit-in against segregation. It happened in 1955 at ...

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

WASHINGTON ‒ A new Trump executive order could undo years of hard-fought gains against discrimination, civil rights leaders and Constitutional law experts said. The 60-year-old landmark Civil Rights ...

(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 ...

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 ...

These include “the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act,” and other more recent laws, according to a University of Pennsylvania news release.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 restricts programs from discriminating if they receive funding from the federal government. Trump has leveraged Title VI to crack down on elite colleges ...

Harvard must follow civil rights laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, because it receives substantial federal funding, and this Act disallows discrimination based on race, color, ...