So Cupp contacted the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in December 2024. On Dec. 16, a staffer from the department's Chicago office called Cupp to learn more about her ...

WASHINGTON ‒ A new Trump executive order could undo years of hard-fought gains against discrimination, civil rights leaders and Constitutional law experts said. The 60-year-old landmark Civil ...

President Trump has taken steps to nullify a key component to the Civil Rights Act as he works to remove diversity, equity and inclusion policies from the federal government. One of the executive ...

We look back at the Civil Rights Movement in our area during the 1960s. We explore Civil Rights issues in the 1960’s throughout our region. See how those changes impacted not only communities ...

Gray's role in the Civil Rights Movement was the first of many accomplishments in his 70 years practicing law. In 1970, he became one of Alabama's first Black state legislators after Reconstruction.

This directive aims to eliminate disparate-impact liability in federal civil rights enforcement. Disparate-impact liability addresses policies that, while neutral on their face, disproportionately ...

Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across ...

The Trump administration has quietly transformed the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, forcing out a majority of career managers and implementing new priorities that current and former ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside ...