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 ...

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

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 room ...

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

Several of them only give glancing mention to the statutes and kinds of discrimination that have long been the focus of the division, which dates back to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Several of the ...

The American Civil Liberties Union asked U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix to issue a temporary restraining order preventing officials from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport ...

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 ...

Its work was instrumental to the formation of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. In March, commission officials received a two-sentence email ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

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 ...

and with Congress considering the SAVE Act (HR 22) that would similarly reverse much of our progress on civil rights, I am seeing a familiar story play out. I sympathize with state representatives ...