President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights ...

Immigrant and civil rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit against a birthright ...

What is the state of civil and human rights today? We've made a huge amount of progress but we still have a long way to go. There's very little of the kind of formal bigotry and segregation that ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...