On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal and discriminatory — presumably against white people.

A letter from the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism to Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, said an investigation by the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of ...

Under the new Trump administration, campus-civil-rights enforcement has focused on Title VI, the 1964 law that says no person shall, “on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be ...

The Department of Energy has proposed a rule that would rescind a section of Title IX — the 1972 civil rights law that bars sex discrimination in federally funded school and athletics programs ...

The ability to sue that the court curtailed today is enshrined in a Reconstruction era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1871. One provision, referred to by its location in the US Code as Section 1983 ...

"This is about civil rights," said Jessica Hart Steinmann, AFPI’s executive general counsel. "Cornell’s practices violate federal law and fundamental principles of equality.

An Iowa law removing gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code took effect Tuesday, the first action of its kind in the United States.

Washington — The Trump administration informed Harvard University on Monday that it found the elite school violated federal civil rights law through its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students ...

A Trump administration investigation has found that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students on campus. The finding puts the school at risk of ...

Protesters fill the Iowa State Capitol to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, Feb. 27, 2025, in Des Moines.

The new law marks the end to an 18-year legacy of civil rights protection for trans people in Iowa – a stark departure from the state’s history of inclusive gender policies.