Vermont’s civil unions law was a tipping point for the national movement for LGBTQ+ rights. In 2009, Vermont became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage through an act of the ...

America’s civil rights laws were meant not just to grant minorities equal protection under the law but to begin to undo centuries of legal harms against them. The conservative movement today ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Ass ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping ... which disproportionately excluded women, Latinos and some Asians.

Minneapolis City Council members showed unanimous support for an effort to add height, weight, housing status and past criminal convictions to the city’s Civil Rights Ordinance. Minneapolis residents ...

Since then they have issued dozens of decrees and orders, which have eviscerated all fundamental human rights from women throughout the country. “From the first moment of oppression, our movement has ...

Their defiance ignited a wave of lunch counter sit-ins across the South and became a major flashpoint in the Civil Rights Movement. Adams added, “We are long past the time when you can erase ...

This directive aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability in federal civil rights enforcement ... groups such as racial minorities and women. The executive order instructs all federal agencies ...

Trump describes disparate impact liability as part of a “pernicious movement ... people, women and people with disabilities to access resources and opportunities. Now, civil rights groups ...

Civil rights activists said the law and its broader interpretation to include women and other minority ... which is under threat by "a pernicious movement" seeking to transform America’s promise ...

It has long been used by activists—during the civil rights movement, the fight for women’s suffrage, and frequently by labor unions looking to improve worker conditions. For Starbucks Workers ...

Gray’s role in the Civil Rights Movement was the first of many accomplishments in his 70 years practicing law. In 1970, he became one of Alabama’s first Black state legislators after ...