The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

Civil rights attorneys blasted the Oakland school board Thursday for what it said was a failure to follow state law during ...

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

The 60-year-old landmark Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in public ... but was signed into law in August of 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. Civil rights activists said the law and its ...

The Department of Justice division created by the landmark 1957 Civil Rights ... Society legislation Johnson pushed through in the 1960s, including the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act ...