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

Media Matters for America asked the federal district court in Washington, D.C., today to issue a preliminary injunction ...

The General Services Administration notifies Harvard it is conducting an official review “of all Federal contracts and grants ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits ...

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom.

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These basic rights and restrictions for public protesters have been shared by the American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations.

The Trump administration's withholding of federal funds from universities and other recipients is criticized for violating civil rights laws.

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.

No fresh action was announced against Columbia University, although the Trump administration suspended more than $400 million in grants and contracts earlier this year.

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission.

Columbia University violated federal civil-rights law by ignoring the harassment of Jewish students by classmates, a government investigation found. The school acted with “deliberate ...