The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Immigrant and civil rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit against a birthright citizenship executive order signed by ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the administration of former President Joe Biden ...

National Civil Rights Day would also preserve the names of multiple unwitting catalysts for changes in police procedures. Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner ...

Those are some of the findings from new data released Jan. 16 by the U.S. Department of Education’s office for civil rights, which show the persistence of longstanding disparities in the nation ...

“This is hard work, and work where I wish there were just, there was just more time in the day to do even more,” she said as she sat surrounded by portraits of civil rights icons including ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon. These concerns are further exacerbated by fears of the new president's views ...

The movement that he led ultimately spurred passage of landmark civil rights and voting rights legislation in 1964 and 1965. King’s movement dismantled formal segregation over a 13-year arc ...

The rally at the historic Black church was intended in part to celebrate the civil rights legend and unite to protect those rights under the Trump administration. At the same time across town at ...