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Shakeups at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have put more attorneys on the job hunt, recruiters say, with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but ...
acting director of the HHS civil rights office, said in a statement. Last spring, Columbia became the epicenter of protests against the war in Gaza, spurring a national movement of campus ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...
(CNN) — The Trump administration alleged Thursday that Columbia University violated federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights can no longer fulfill its legal duties due to severe funding cuts, staffing reductions, and office closures, a motion for preliminary ...
The Department of Justice on Monday announced the establishment of a sweeping new Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, signaling a significant escalation in the government’s efforts to combat civil rights ...
They didn't hold high public office, they didn't fight wars and they didn't possess vast wealth and riches. Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most ...
A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage, reporting from Washington, has ...
The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, fire hoses and dogs were used against peaceful ...
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. Yet the new mission statement ...