Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

Reproductive-rights advocates are pushing back against ... senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project. Medication abortions typically involve ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked ... President John F. Kennedy conceived of the office in the early 1960s, saying the federal ...