Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

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

The settlement helps “to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students and faculty are treated as equal and valuable members of the campus community,” Oleg Ivanov, of the StandWithUs Center for ...

A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from using bathrooms ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, dismissing an appeal from a ...

In his 1995 article titled “Repeal ’64,” Lew Rockwell argued against extending the Civil Rights Act 1964 to new areas of application, on the basis that, “Bad law should be repealed, not extended.” His ...

Just before dawn on Oct. 6, 1964, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a 19-car train at Union Station and set off on a high-risk political mission: take the administration’s message straight into the Deep South ...

Two bills barring local protections against gender identity-based discrimination and exempting LGBTQ conversion therapy from the definition of child abuse are now eligible for an Iowa House vote. Over ...

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, ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — In Hawaiʻi, where people of many differing backgrounds, races, nationalities and beliefs live and work together, Martin Luther King, Jr. saw lessons for the rest of the country in ...

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 ...