EEOC seeks to drop a gender discrimination case, signaling a big shift in civil rights enforcement
The federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss its own lawsuit on behalf of a ...
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, ...
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13 Myths And Truths About The Civil Rights Movement
In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
Indiana joins federal lawsuit surrounding constitutionality of disability civil rights law
The State of Indiana has joined a lawsuit that aims to declare Section 504, a federal civil rights law that protects against ...
We’re in a civil rights emergency. CT must answer the call
Gov. Ned Lamont and state legislators must declare a civil rights emergency and take immediate action to ensure Connecticut ...
Trump is targeting antisemitism in schools. Experts fear other civil rights will be ignored
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal office that enforces civil rights at schools across the U.S. has been ordered to prioritize ...
Fred Shuttlesworth, "The most courageous civil rights fighter in the South"
In Alabama, many have come through the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, but have you ever stopped to ask, why is it named Shuttlesworth?Well, the ...
Rosa Parks Day Act bill introduced to honor role in Civil Rights Movement
On what would have been Rosa Parks' 112th birthday, U.S. Representatives Terri A. Sewell of Alabama, Joyce M. Beatty of Ohio, ...
Civil Rights Attorney Lisa Holder Says Reparations Are More Than Money
Holder, the president of the Equal Justice Society, has spent more than two decades working to dismantle systems of racial ...