The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and ...

The Vietnam War was still raging, civil rights movements were transforming America, and women everywhere were gaining ...

If not challenged, activists say, they could set the Civil Rights Movement back decades. “It’s been a full-frontal assault, and it's left people quaking. It’s left people shaking.

Watch: Faith leaders address HB2 Pastors say comparing the law to the Civil Rights Movement is offensive. The Justice Department is on a mission to get rid of the controversial law.

The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass exodus of "over 100" attorneys, the newly confirmed official leading the ...

In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding to remember what the Civil Rights Movement was really made of — not just legal wins ...

In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay rights movement traded a legacy of civil rights successes for radical ideas that are turning off modern-day Americans, like trying ...

Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement fought, suffered, and died for this law. It was their seminal achievement and the touchstone of the work of the Voting Section.

The civil rights movement came to a crossroads during the Selma-to-Montgomery march of 1965. Photographer Steve Schapiro captured the moment in an image of King linking arms with fellow civil ...

The year 1968 did not go quietly. Events like the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy shocked ...