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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is accusing Columbia University of violating the civil rights of Jewish students by “acting with deliberate indifference” toward what it describes as ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The Trump administration alleged Thursday that Columbia University violated federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights can no longer fulfill its legal duties due to severe funding cuts, staffing reductions, and office closures, a motion for preliminary ...

The Department of Justice on Monday announced the establishment of a sweeping new Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, signaling a significant escalation in the government’s efforts to combat civil rights ...

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 ...