The administration is dismissing cases and unwinding settlements built on "disparate impact," which holds that even neutral ...

Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright ...

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. In his drive to ...

A conservative group that’s pursuing anti-DEI complaints against more than a dozen state universities on Wednesday targeted ...

WASHINGTON—One night in April, Harmeet Dhillon was making spiced Indian tea she said she needed to power through her 12-hour ...

Former U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York died Monday at age 94 after the Democratic retired from Congress in 2017.

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Jerrauld C. Jones, a longtime judge and state delegate, has died at 70. In a statement issued by the ...

In recent months, 70% of the Department of Justice's civil rights arm has been dissolved. Attorneys say the changes leave ...

The two leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice for Black ...

As images circulate of law enforcement officers aggressively grabbing immigrants off the streets, activists are preparing for ...