Washington, D.C., the heart of American democracy, is once again at the center of a heated battle over who gets to call ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

While the Voting Rights Act may be heading to its demise as a functional piece of legislation, it can still stand as a symbol ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - August 6th, 1965 symbolizes a significant turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. That was the ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

In a speech before he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the landmark civil ...

The Black civil rights movement’s greatest legal achievement is now on a Republican Supreme Court’s chopping block.

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we honor those who strived for that victory by defending its true ...

Columbia University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through its "deliberate indifference" toward the anti-Israel protests that have taken over campus, according to the HHS.

On Thursday, the DOJ sent a letter to Dr. Michael Drake, the president of the university. The DOJ said it was investigating whether or not the hiring plan laid out in the UC 2030 Capacity Plan ...

<p>Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the ...