While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...

National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...

Regardless of a candidate’s political affiliation, the ACLU will stand for any executive action to protect and expand civil rights and civil liberties and stand against any executive action that ...

WASHINGTON − Moments after Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a farewell address to his staff, Kristen Clarke ...

The executive order reviving Schedule F quickly prompted the National Treasury Employees Union to file a lawsuit against Trump officials.

The ultimate outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil investigation of the Worcester police is in limbo following reports that the agency’s new leadership has put a freeze on civil rights ...

But many leaders, including King’s own family, see the juxtaposition as a poignant contrast and a chance to refocus the work of advancing civil rights in a new political era. “I’m glad it ...