The EEOC is seeking to overturn rules created decades ago to tackle discrimination in employment. The Trump administration ...

The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over Louisiana’s congressional map.

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...

Donald Trump stated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt White people by causing reverse discrimination. The author argues Trump's administration has weakened civil rights protections and dismantled ...

A Long Island school district has been referred to the Department of Justice for allegedly violating federal civil rights law with a controversial name change of its Thunderbirds mascot in response to ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.” President Lyndon ...

The East Lansing Human Rights Commission agreed Wednesday night it would host a public forum to gather public input on ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...