President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the use of race in admissions to its top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for ...

When former attorney and civil rights pioneer Rita Geier received an honorary doctorate degree last week from the University of Tennessee, it was an odd sort of full-circle moment: The award ...

One person was killed. When marchers retreated to the temple, police fired tear gas inside and people broke some of the stained-glass windows to escape. King promised to lead a second, peaceful ...

A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage, reporting from Washington, has ...

Yet, equipped with the teachings of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders, black and white, et.al, who engaged in moral reimagination, I continue to stand steadfast in my commitment to truth ...

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval ...

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission and ...

On March 7, 1965, its hallways filled with the bleeding and injured after Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in what would become known as Bloody Sunday.