In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of ...

In March, the country commemorated the 60th anniversary of the march for voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery ... the prominent civil rights leader and ordained minister, led a ...

Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong ... to Learn National Week of Action campaign will include a march May 3 from Freedom Plaza near the D.C. City Hall to ...

Dr. Amy K. Milligan will present the 2025 Stone Lecture in Judaism at Augustana, “Navigating History: Civil Rights and the Jews of Selma, Alabama,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Olin ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect ...

The People’s Organization for Progress will host an all-day conference on Saturday to plan resistance to what the Newark-based civil rights group ... Martin Luther King March of Resistance ...

The administration resumed its work on disability-related civil rights discrimination cases on Feb. 20, and later resumed all cases on March 6, said Julie Hartman, a spokesperson for the federal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill moving civil rights oversight power from the state's Human Rights Commission to the Attorney General's Office. The Senate version ...

Shavon Arline-Bradley, CEO and president ... the bus boycott alone. He didn't march from Selma to Montgomery alone. He didn't pass the Voting and Civil Rights Acts alone." The event also featured ...

and civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, in 1964. The march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965 was originally organized to protest the murder of Jimmie ...

From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights activists ... campaigns like the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham campaign and the March on Washington.