A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...

Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...

Before Civil Rights activist Dave Dennis participated and then helped plan Mississippi’s famous Summer of Freedom in 1964, ...

A Manhattan federal judge will hear a challenge to the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, one of the ringleaders of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year who the Trump administration is ...

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday sent letters to 60 colleges and universities it says are ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this ...

Adam Krall, a historic site interpreter with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, showcases an original rifle that ...