Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially ...

Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work ...

“It’s shocking and appalling what this administration is doing,” said Jin Hee Lee, a lawyer at the Legal Defense Fund, the group that won landmark cases during the civil rights era under the ...

During this era, which rose to prominence ... Though some think that the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950, two Supreme Court decisions mark two important dates within it.

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Louisiana “got its act together decades ago,” said Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, in a statement. He said the dismissal corrects a ...

End of carousel Legal experts said that unwinding a civil-rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check on institutional power. The groundwork for such laws ...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday said it is dismissing Biden-era lawsuits against the ... federal consent decrees opened by DOJ's Civil Rights Division in recent years, officials ...

Sixty years ago, on August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black former sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi, who had become a civil ... era of liberal ascendancy, such as the Voting ...