An appointee with the US Commission on Civil Rights has been charged with vehicular homicide. He began a new term in the role after the felony charges were filed. The victim’s family discovered ...

One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault. Born from Black ...

The federal watchdog that Minnesota schools once feared is now a skeleton of itself. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), housed within the United States Department of Education, has been cut in ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of ...

Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

The new head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division is dramatically reshaping the office to propel President Donald Trump’s social agenda, prompting the departure of about half of ...

Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.

President Donald Trump’s administration used his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shutter the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil ...

From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights activists have shaped ... There, state troopers brutally attacked the marchers in what became known as “Bloody Sunday.” ...

She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday — the screams of her fellow civil rights marchers as they were attacked by police ...

ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights ... But the attack on the marchers bolstered support for the Voting Rights Act.