A letter threatening to cut off all of Harvard's federal funding is the latest escalation in an ongoing back-and-forth over ...

Timeline. June 11, 1963 – US President John F. Kennedy asks Congress to enact civil rights legislation during his Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights. June 19 ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years. Addressing or even acknowledging racial ...

One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault.

The civil rights laws the Trump administration is purporting to enforce establish core prohibitions against discrimination. Indeed, any agency or organization accepting federal funds should be ...

Civil rights lawyers leave en masse as Justice Dept. mission shifts. Civil rights division director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian ...

In a statement, HHS said its Office for Civil Rights found the university violated federal civil rights laws by “acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of ...

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission ...

Throughout the morning, we brought viewers along on the "Atlanta’s Journey for Civil Rights Bike Tour," one of several tours offered by Bicycle Tours of Atlanta.

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. By Erica L. Green Erica L. Green covers the White House and reported from Washington. In ...