The Justice Department has rewritten a decades-old civil rights provision, disparate impact, changing how governments view discrimination.

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a “Black Students Success Plan,” after a ...

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a “Black Students Success Plan,” after a ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

WASHINGTON ‒ In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has eliminated diversity initiatives across federal agencies, pushed to roll back provisions of the Civil ...

The UC Irvine School of Law celebrated the opening of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality this week with dignitaries and civil rights activists including California Attorney General Rob ...

Tessa Veksler was among a group of campus activists profiled in Wendy Sachs' pro-Israel documentary, which denounced ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

OPINION: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to provide freedom and protections for all Americans. Project 2025 wants to take us back. Congressman Tim Burchette referred to Vice President Kamala ...

Trump’s key aide thinks the country was better off with strict quotas that sought to preserve the racial makeup of the country in the 1920s and so favored immigrants from Western and Northern Europe ...

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A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and seeking to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate ...