U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Title V provided for the expansion of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that was established by the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1957. Title VI: Discrimination ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

On January 14, 2025, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a resolution agreement with the ...

The EEOC has halted the processing of LGBTQ+ discrimination claims, raising legal and procedural concerns. Learn what this ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979, but its origins date back much farther. Take us back to post-Civil War, when ...

Advocates and legal experts say one order, which revokes the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, also known as Title VII under the Civil Rights Act, will have a chilling effect.

The EEOC was created by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a bipartisan five-member panel to protect workers from ...

As expected, President Donald J. Trump has signed a slew of executive orders undoing decades of hard work people had put in to establish equity and protections from discrimination. The latest ...