Murfreesboro native and former Hertford County Deputy Sheriff Aqeel T. Ash-Shakoor returns to the hit TV police drama Law & ...

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 ...

As former federal officials with responsibility for civil rights enforcement, we support Harvard and others who refuse to be bullied. The civil rights laws the Trump administration is purporting ...

An appointee with the US Commission on Civil Rights has been charged with vehicular homicide. He began a new term in the role after the felony charges were filed. The victim’s family discovered ...

The federal watchdog that Minnesota schools once feared is now a skeleton of itself. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), housed within the United States Department of Education, has been cut in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted Wednesday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders expressed outrage over another ...

The Equal Protection Project filed complaint with U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights The organization that made the complaint is based in Barrington, Rhode Island Complaint mentions ...

From free speech rights and desegregation to gun rights and religious freedoms, civil rights litigation has long been a cornerstone of personal liberty in America. But in February, the Supreme ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...