Rep. Aime Wichtendahl, Iowa's first out trans lawmaker, said it was "devastating" to see lawmakers pass a bill taking away ...

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

Black leaders grapple with progress being undone by a series of court rulings, state laws, and Donald Trump's targeting of ...

A bill removing protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the state's civil rights act could be on Gov. Reynolds' desk this week.

Here's how Iowa House and Senate lawmakers voted Thursday on a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa ...

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

Iowa is the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people from state code and advocates for the ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

The Rev. Joe Carter was the first African American since 1902 to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish in 1963, but he ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...