The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

Donald Trump is trying to use a historic federal civil rights commission to advance his agenda on issues like alleged non-citizen voting, antisemitism on college campuses and transgender women in ...

At a time when the federal government is rolling back rights and recognition for transgender Americans, Colorado is moving to expand its protections in a number of areas, including medical care ...

Pennsylvania has affirmed its compliance with US civil rights laws in response to a Trump administration warning that schools promoting certain DEI programs may lose federal funding. The ...

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During a CNN townhall, Anderson Cooper used the "wrong pronouns" for civil rights attorney Grace Thomas. Thomas corrected Cooper. Though Sanders smiled seemingly in affirmation of Thomas as she ...

From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights activists have shaped the conscience of nations and redrawn the maps of moral possibility. Some changed the world in the past ...

A bill to dissolve Tennessee’s independent civil rights watchdog agency and transfer its powers to the state’s attorney general drew heated criticism Wednesday from a Nashville Democrat ...

In a letter on Wednesday, State Superintendent Tony Sanders challenged the U.S. Department of Education to prove which programs and activities violate federal civil rights law and to identify ...

Residents filed a civil rights lawsuit in August challenging the city’s taking of homes in the West Baltimore neighborhood through eminent domain as unconstitutional. In a hearing in U.S ...