On her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo calling for a report on how the Department of Justice ...

Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, ...

Harvard will send a “climate survey” to its students and faculty, improve its recordkeeping, and regularly monitor its reporting hotline.

NYU will hire its first Title VI coordinator, who will oversee discrimination cases relating to race, color and national origin, by the end of the spring semester, the university said. The position ...

thereby violating the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." "Colbey Decker, a mom from Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a dyslexic son who was denied reading resources because he ...

Pete Seeger, 'We Shall Overcome' (1963) This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic ...

It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) domestically enforceable. The Bill of ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

Johnson's order was issued against the backdrop of the Civil Rights movement, following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It served as a cornerstone in ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...