Shakeups at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have put more attorneys on the job hunt, recruiters say, with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but ...

He will be held in the same contempt that most of us now hold George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. Our freedom to be who we are is a fundamental civil right. Trans rights are civil rights.

Unbeknownst to Dale Gibbs, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the killings under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, during the first Trump Administration, according ...

The pullback from police oversight comes amid major change at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since the start of the Trump administration and the confirmation of Assistant Attorney ...

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the broader ...

The Trump administration says Columbia University violated a federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students. The Health and Human Services Department accused the school of acting ...

WASHINGTON — In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections. He ordered federal ...

Many strong locals advocated and fought for racial equality in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, and a battle ground in the national civil rights movement. From nurses to shop owners ...

DENVER — Reverend James D. Peters, Jr., a civil rights activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away Saturday. He was 92 years old. His death was announced by community leader ...

These cases are among the 12,000 civil rights complaints that were pending at the US Department of Education when President Trump took office in January. They were filed by New England parents and ...

EXCLUSIVE - A complaint filed by a civil rights organization on Wednesday alleges the University of Nebraska Omaha is offering scholarships that are discriminatory towards United States citizens.

A federal judge said that she had concerns about being “hoodwinked” by plans put forward in her courtroom Monday by a Trump appointee to rebuild three offices focused on civil rights oversight ...