The U.S. Department of Justice has ordered its civil rights division to pause any ongoing litigation left over from the ...

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls Right-wing extremists ...

A rally at a historic Black church celebrated the civil rights legend and included a vow to protect rights under the new ...

Clay became a boxer and suffered the indignation of winning an Olympic gold medal for the United States in 1960 and ... Congressional seat to fellow civil rights activist John Lewis.

The memo doesn’t state how long the freeze will last. However, it widely shuts down the civil rights division for at least ...

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

Regardless of a candidate’s political affiliation, the ACLU will stand for any executive action to protect and expand civil rights and civil liberties ... of policy proposals that would reshape the ...

The Florida Civil Rights Museum is more than a collection of exhibits — it’s a vital link to the past and a source of ...

And the American Civil Liberties Union and Lawyers for Civil Rights filed lawsuits in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, respectively, on behalf of parents whose children would not be eligible for ...

When we consider the long trajectory of activism in the United States, there’s much to learn from the struggle for civil rights in America regarding the cycle of radicalization and repression ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights ...