Tensions between the U.S. and Europe are escalating following a leaked text message conversation revealing secret plans for ...

Governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other local officials are starting to vocally say no to President Donald Trump’s ...

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

But now the office created to enforce that promise has been decimated. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights was slashed in half on Tuesday as part of President Trump’s aggressive ...

As President Donald Trump rolls out his key nominations, we analyze how his nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights will impact civil liberties. President Donald Trump has nominated ...

Barry said he grew up between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida in the 1960s — around the time that Ku Klux Klan racists ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a ...

Medgar Evers — who served with the U.S. Army in World War II before coming home to fight segregation in the civil rights ...

The Department of Homeland Security is making cuts to three key offices that oversee civil rights protections across its broad mission, suggesting that they were impeding immigration enforcement ...

The latest federal lawsuit so far applies only to 10 men facing transfer to the naval base in Cuba. Like a lawsuit the same attorneys filed earlier this month for access to migrants already ...