The Iowa House passed a bill barring local trans and nonbinary civil rights protections with new limits on local civil rights ...

Under Secretary Linda McMahon, the work of the Office for Civil Rights, which aims to protect students from discrimination, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.’s only synagogue, evokes that state’s dark legacy of violence toward those supporting racial equality — one stretching back more than 60 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At first glance, some of the language looks familiar. A letter sent to state officials in Rhode Island by the Justice Department in June included a reminder that federal civil rights law "prohibits an ...