The two democratic lawmakers promised to file the legislation last week after President Donald Trump’s administration put a historic Alabama civil rights landmark up for sale. On March 4, the ...

Barbara Franklin, whom President Richard Nixon appointed in 1971 to spearhead an effort to bring more women into high-level ...

Many of the federal Supreme Court’s worst rulings are justified by the 14th Amendment – everything from anchor ...

The 36 million who watched President Donald Trump's address to Congress also watched as Congressional Black Caucus member, ...

Pacific Lutheran University is one of 60 higher-education institutions in the nation under investigation for alleged ...

Democrats have reintroduced federal legislation to ban hair discrimination. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) reintroduced the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act, or ...

Facing a midnight Friday deadline to prevent a federal government shutdown if no budget is passed, the Republican Speaker of ...

This report has been updated to specify the justification used by the Department of Education for the investigations. The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights ...

Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're ...

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.

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...