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 ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees.

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

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.

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 ...