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WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of ...
When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during both Democratic and Republican presidencies, policymakers were aware of ...
Then the U.S. Department of Education in March suddenly closed the California regional outpost of its Office for Civil Rights and fired all its employees there. That investigation and others went ...
RHS teacher Donna Avino and local historian and artist Bill Batson teamed up to create the Rockland County Civic Survey Project.
The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years. Addressing or even acknowledging racial ...
Louisiana “got its act together decades ago,” said Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, in a statement. He said the dismissal corrects a ...
Covington & Burling and civil rights co-counsel may seek intervention from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit following a “setback” in their lawsuit challenging President Donald ...
A red barn on a rural road in New Hampshire is the latest battleground for the Justice Department as it shifts the focus of its Civil Rights Division, under the helm of Harmeet Dhillon, to protecting ...