A group of civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order requiring proof ...

Donald Trump overturned a 1965 executive order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson banning segregation for federal contractors.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned that DEI policies could violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That same day, it was revealed that President ...

The bill signing by Gov. Kim Reynolds makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a group it has ...

President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an ...

His successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed it into law on July 2, 1964. It achieved many of the aims of a Reconstruction-era law, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which was passed but soon overturned.

President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday limiting numerous agency employees from unionizing and instructing ...

Senate File 418 removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which shields Iowans from discrimination.

Almost from the time Lyndon Johnson handed Dr. King the pen with which h’d signed the CRA in 1964, the Republican Party determined to derive political benefits from attaching itself to the angry ...

Complaints filed under the Iowa Civil Rights Act go through several steps ... appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Iowa Senate. A law change signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds last year shrunk the ...