More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military in preparation for the wars in ...

Many top leaders were removed from their positions. In addition, Trump’s appointees launched a multiagency task force housed within the civil rights division to combat antisemitism. Dhillon has ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A new Trump executive order could undo years of hard-fought gains against discrimination, civil rights leaders and Constitutional law experts said. The 60-year-old landmark Civil ...

Reduced to $1. As fear intensified that the civil rights office would be dismantled, staff tried to lie low. Leaders told staff to stop launching investigations that came from media reports ...

But civil rights leaders have pushed back on the administration’s meritocracy-based arguments, saying it overlooks systemic biases that leave little room for people of color, LGBTQ people ...

Gray represented prominent civil rights leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis throughout the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, allowing activists to intentionally leverage mass arrests ...

By Devlin Barrett Reporting from Washington Hundreds of lawyers and other staff members are leaving the Justice Department’s civil rights division, as veterans of the office say they have been ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...