Legislators should revoke authority for citizen's arrests from almost everyone besides shopkeepers, the N.J. Law Revision ...

Iowa civil rights lawyer Roxanne Conlin remembers the passage of the Iowa Civil Rights Act in 1965. Six years later, she ...

The history of school vouchers predates the civil rights era, stretching back to 1800s New England, where publicly run schools were sparse in rural areas. But its modern iteration was popularized ...

They are being filed across the country, with a slew in California and locally in San Diego. After a white plaintiff sued, ...

In the 1800s Iowa law restricted women from taking ... Based on the Clark decision and subsequent statutes of the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the Iowa education system has been open to all, regardless ...

Dozens of career officials working in the department’s storied civil rights division have left in a mass exodus of prosecutors and staff. Trump’s new chief of the storied division, Harmeet ...

So slaves didn’t have civil rights, so they couldn’t sue over property ... These are all founded in the late 1800s. So are Black fraternities, many Black churches. These are among the most ...

The book argued that the civil-rights regime established in the 1960s marked a fundamental departure from America’s constitutional tradition. Though launched with the noble intention of stopping ...

Agencies across the federal government are dismantling offices that enforce civil rights and antidiscrimination laws under a Trump administration push to shrink the workforce, weakening the ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

“We have been in the forefront for centuries, really going back to the 1800s in terms of civil rights, and it's always surprised people when they hear that history,” said Alicia ...