President Donald Trump has taken aim at rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs within the federal ...

It also signaled it could seek to back out of Biden-era agreements with police departments that engaged in discrimination or ...

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police ...

President Trump issued a sweeping executive order revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center works to advance and shape federal, state and local policies to help build a fair and ...

The administration will take steps to roll back federal support for racial equity and protections for transgender people.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

Civil rights division is being asked to pause new cases and investigations as Trump nominees examine new paths ...

The Trump administration, in a memo, instructed lawyers in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division not to file any new complaints, The Associated Press reported Thursday.

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

civil rights leaders are organizing efforts to counter policies expected from President-elect Donald Trump that they believe will undermine decades of progress. Carrying out mass deportations and ...