WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts by the Trump ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will close its civil rights office in June, according to an email sent to staff Monday and viewed by POLITICO. The office closure is part of HHS ...

Approximately 70% of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is expected to accept a second offer to federal workers that allows them to resign from their positions and be paid through ...

The Trump administration has shifted staff and undertaken a series of policy changes at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division that current and former staff say strike at the heart of ...

This directive aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability in federal civil rights enforcement. Disparate-impact liability addresses policies that, while neutral on their face, disproportionately ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A new Trump executive order could undo years of hard-fought gains against discrimination, civil rights leaders and Constitutional law experts said. The 60-year-old landmark Civil ...

The Trump administration has quietly transformed the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, forcing out a majority of career managers and implementing new priorities that current and former ...

WEBSITE AND MOBILE APP. MEGAN, BACK TO YOU. TWO FORMER PEARL POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS HAVE BEEN FOUND LIABLE IN A CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT.. JONATHON WELKER AND JACOB LANG WILL PAY DAMAGES, ONE BEING AS ...

More than 30 objects, including Harriet Tubman’s hymnal, have been rotated out of the National Museum of African American ...

Here’s what happened. Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed ...

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 ...

A northern Michigan school district controversy is one of the first to test whether Michigan school districts will follow the state's civil rights laws or change long-held policies that they fear ...