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

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

The bill would protect LGBTQ individuals from discrimination but faces uphill battle in a Republican-controlled Congress.

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

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced ... idea of extending anti-discrimination protections in the 1964 Civil Rights Act to gay people. “It’s only fair,” he told The Advocate ...

The bill is Democrats' latest effort to create federal protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

founded after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, initially focused on protecting the voting rights of Black Americans. But Congress later expanded its responsibilities to include protecting ...

And department officials reassigned more than a dozen career staffers — including section chiefs overseeing police brutality, disability and voting ... part of the Civil Rights Act, which ...

The stakes are bigger than one election cycle. Some experts fear that attacks on immigrants could open the door to ...

Republican lawmakers push universities and state agencies to dismantle diversity and inclusion hiring practices and programs.

Southern Blacks and other minority groups for years before the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the 1964 Civil Rights Acts made voter discrimination a federal crime. Although the ...