Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor ...
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'So important': Selma marks 60 years since US civil rights march
Hundreds gathered Sunday in Selma, Alabama to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when a group of peaceful ...
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Syria’s Surge in Violence Does Not Signal a New Civil War—for Now
A spate of attacks involving loyalists to former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...
Boise State Public Radio7d
60 years since Bloody Sunday, Selma's civil rights activists carry on the legacy
Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.
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Maxine Waters Believes Trump is ‘Working Toward a Civil War’
The California Democrat said that President Donald Trump had been planning for an armed conflict since well before last ...
Department of Education halts civil rights investigations. Here's how many are open in KY
Open investigations into Kentucky school districts and universities are related to racial, gender and disability ...
How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
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 ...
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Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war
Rights groups reported dozens of revenge ... PHOTOS: Syria's worst violence in months reopens wounds of the civil war Defense Ministry spokesperson Col. Hassan Abdel-Ghani said Sunday that ...
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Syria’s worst violence in months reopens wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war
As the civil war intensified ... Such human rights violations were rampant under Assad. Blaming remnants of the former government for the outbreak of violence, and certain foreign parties ...