Many strong locals advocated and fought for racial equality in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, and a battle ground in the national civil rights movement. From nurses to shop owners ...

Shakeups at the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have put more attorneys on the job hunt, recruiters say, with a few DOJ attorneys in this unit finding new law firm gigs lately but ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is accusing Columbia University of violating the civil rights of Jewish students by “acting with deliberate indifference” toward what it describes as ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

(CNN) — The Trump administration alleged Thursday that Columbia University violated federal civil rights law by acting with “deliberate indifference” towards harassment of Jewish students on ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights can no longer fulfill its legal duties due to severe funding cuts, staffing reductions, and office closures, a motion for preliminary ...

Local leaders in Vicksburg, Mississippi, hope upcoming renovations to the Kuhn Memorial Civil Rights Park, located on the former site of Kuhn Memorial Hospital, will foster as much positive impact ...

When former attorney and civil rights pioneer Rita Geier received an honorary doctorate degree last week from the University of Tennessee, it was an odd sort of full-circle moment: The award ...

A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage, reporting from Washington, has ...

Yet, equipped with the teachings of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders, black and white, et.al, who engaged in moral reimagination, I continue to stand steadfast in my commitment to truth ...

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its traditional mission. The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval ...

After a nearly three-year legal battle, a Tennessee civil rights attorney will no longer be gagged from criticizing a private prison. The local federal court has scrapped a rule that restricted ...