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

Hane Cypress McLeaish, a transgender nonbinary individual, claims in a lawsuit they were subjected to discrimination at three Escambia County schools.

Boston celebrates the 60 year anniversary of 1965 Freedom Rally at a time when the Trump administration is waging war […] ...

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

As a teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin Luther ...

(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 ...

The exhibit features a collection of artistic prints centered around major figures in the American civil rights movement. Kennedy Jr. also shared his experience and creative insights with students ...

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.