Today, the SPLC and the nation mourn the loss of civil rights and voting rights activist Bernard LaFayette. He was 85.

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

In this week's It’s Debatable, Rosen and Moster debate President Trump's executive order denying citizenship to children born to mothers who are unlawfully in the United States.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders launched a campaign to counter Trump administration ...

The indictment against journalist Don Lemon and eight others will likely be dismissed because it hinges on a charge that is viewed as so constitutionally flawed that the Justice Department's Civil ...

In a recent interview, President Trump said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in white people being “very badly treated.” The 1964 Civil Rights act outlawed discrimination based on race, ...

The Civil Right Division of the Department of Justice was created in 1957 to act as the federal government’s independent investigative and enforcement mechanism for civil rights law in the United ...

Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., rebuked President Donald Trump for suggesting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which her father helped get passed into law, led to ...

Donald Trump stated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt White people by causing reverse discrimination. The author argues Trump's administration has weakened civil rights protections and dismantled ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...