A Louisiana redistricting case signals that further attacks on the Voting Rights Act may be coming, putting fair ...

The initial steps taking by Andrea Lucas, acting chief of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, have earned her ...

Nearly 70 years after Strom Thurmond filibustered against Black civil rights, Booker’s marathon speech called out threats to democracy and the harm of Trump-era policies.

Civil rights, health care and a local factory are among the topics to have compelled lawmakers to break the 20-hour mark on ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led sit-ins and other acts designed to provoke arrest, making the injustice of those laws visible to the public. The civil ...

President Donald Trump’s agenda on gender, abortion, and religion is driving major changes at a little-known health ...

She urged the department to enforce federal civil rights laws to push private companies to roll back DEI, and cited the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Supreme Court case, which ended ...

The Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, with the mission of protecting civil liberties in the department created in the wake of the Sept. 11 ...

Here is a timeline of events surrounding the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. All times are Eastern. Saturday, March 15 —2:16 a.m.: Two legal advocacy groups, the ACLU and Democracy Forward ...

Here is a timeline of events surrounding the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. All times are Eastern. —2:16 a.m.: Two legal advocacy groups, the ACLU and Democracy Forward, sue on behalf of five ...

Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and ...