This autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a question with potentially far-reaching consequences for civil rights in the ...

A DeKalb County woman now knows the truth of what happened to her grandmother due to records being released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Now, a new bipartisan bill authored by ...

The administration has shifted its enforcement of a civil rights law from allegations of sexual misconduct to issues like blocking protections for transgender students.

The Justice Department said Thursday it has ended more than 50 long-standing consent decrees dating back decades that sought to curb unlawful racial segregation that was prevalent during the Jim Crow ...

According to a new report, the United States federal government has taken a massive step back from its role in protecting civil rights across the country. On Thursday, the nonprofit Human Rights Watch ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - A Texas property developer has agreed to pay $68 million to resolve a Biden-era civil rights case that alleged the company targeted Hispanics in a fraudulent land scheme ...

The sharply conservative Supreme Court that President Donald Trump’s three appointees remade is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women ...

In a sweeping regulatory shift, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finalized a rule that narrows how discrimination can be penalized across billions of dollars in federal grants. The ...

CONCORD, N.H. — The leader of what is reputed to be a New England neo-Nazi group has been hit with a fine and 250 hours of community service for a 2023 incident at a drag queen story hour event in ...

The Tennessee attorney general’s office is using more lawyers to prioritize closing civil rights cases quicker than the commission that previously administered Tennessee’s anti-discrimination laws, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow and Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker discussed the reconstruction era and the background ...

The Trump administration has narrowed the focus of the Office for Civil Rights to three primary issues: transgender student policies, reverse racial discrimination, and antisemitism. The department ...