Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers the White House and reported from Washington.

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former Franklin County deputy pleaded guilty in federal on Friday to depriving an inmate of his civil rights. According to Acting United States Attorney Kelly Norris for the ...

The Trump administration on Thursday accused Columbia University of having violated federal law through its "deliberate indifference" toward anti-Israel protests that have been taking over the ...

"A hotbed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators.” Columbia University was cited for violating federal civil rights law by allegedly "acting with deliberate indifference towards ...

No suspects have been named in the hate crime investigation around last month’s incident in Montebello, spurring Asian American leaders from multiple civil rights groups on Thursday to gather in ...

Braxton Kee will plead guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law, becoming the fourteenth person who worked for or with the Walker County Jail at the time of Mitchell’s death.

Civil rights leaders, and Republican and Democratic politicians, are calling for the CIF to reinstate gold medal to Clara Adams of Salinas. She sprayed her cleats with a fire extinguisher ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A Sioux Falls man known as an advocate for civil rights and Black history ... And Kenny Anderson, who was the first black person to serve on the Sioux Falls city ...

Disparate impact liability holds that policies that are neutral on their face can violate civil rights laws if they impose artificial barriers that disadvantage different demographic groups.