To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

War, drugs, and racial tensions set the stage for the summer of 1967.

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

Alabama’s Selma-to-Montgomery march began as a memorial to Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young Black civil rights activist who was killed by police on Feb. 26, 1965.

During Trump's first term in office, the Civil Rights Division pulled back on police oversight in cities like Chicago, Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, the St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown ...

The U.S. Department of Justice will throw out findings of its three-year investigation into Louisiana State Police, withdrawing allegations that state troopers violated Black drivers' civil rights ...

Shortly after the DOJ announcement, FOX13 asked Memphis Mayor Paul Young about the investigation into MPD's civil rights violations being dropped. "I'm hearing it for the first time from you," he ...