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 ...

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 ...

The job of enforcing the administration’s position on those issues will largely fall to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. During past handovers between Democratic and Republican ...

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 we consider the long trajectory of activism in the United States, there’s much to learn from the struggle for civil rights in America regarding the cycle of radicalization and repression ...

Civil rights leaders are still grappling with the weight of President Donald Trump’s swift and sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion and rolling back decades-old ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...

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 ...

Governmentcategory· November 15, 2024 Malcolm X's family sues US law enforcement agencies over assassination The family of Malcolm X, a militant civil-rights leader who was assassinated almost 60 ...

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 ...

Advocates vow to fight voter suppression before and after ballots are cast. Civil rights leaders believe that a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on Wednesday could lay the framework for ...

Brazilian labor prosecutors filed a public civil action against Chinese carmaker BYD for alleged human trafficking and ...