Many South Florida immigrants fear President Donald Trump’s deportation policy. One reason: the facilities where they will likely be detained have been buffeted by decades of documented violence, sexual abuse and human rights violations.

MIAMI – A group of South Florida students stepped into history, visiting some of the most iconic sites of the civil rights movement in a spring break expedition. The tour for students in Miami ...

During a ceremony Monday at the post office, daughter Nina Dale remembered him as a physically small man with a mighty intellect and ferocious commitment to the law. “He spent the rest of

A federal lawsuit alleging that a Tampa Bay area state Senate district was racially gerrymandered kicked off in a Tampa federal courtroom on Monday.

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating the University of South Florida for potential Civil Rights Act violations related to a race-based scholarship program. This investigation is part ...

The family of a US airman who was fatally shot by a Florida sheriff’s deputy inside his own home in 2024 filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday over his killing. The complaint filed in a ...

A South Florida woman who has lived in the U.S. for two decades is now facing a staggering $1.82 million fine from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to leave the country ...

The civil rights division used to be the ... For much of the 20th Century, few Black people in the South could vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 sought to end that disenfranchisement — to ...