What is the state of civil and human rights today? We've made a huge amount of progress but we still have a long way to go. There's very little of the kind of formal bigotry and segregation that ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights ...

Everyone has basic rights under the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws. Learn more here about what your rights are, how to exercise them, and what to do when your rights are violated. Learn more ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...

As President Donald Trump rolls out his key nominations, we analyze how his nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights will impact civil liberties. President Donald Trump has nominated ...

But now the office created to enforce that promise has been decimated. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was slashed in half on Tuesday as part of President Trump’s aggressive ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has taken sudden and unprecedented actions in the past month highlighting its desire to protect Jewish students from discrimination.

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 Department of Homeland Security is making cuts to three key offices that oversee civil rights protections across its broad mission, suggesting that they were impeding immigration enforcement ...