"It is a significant action taken by the Trump administration. The impact, generally, I don't think will be significant," said Nichole Atallah.

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 ...

Discover how the brutal treatment of Black citizens in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act and shaped American history.

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

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

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, ...

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.

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

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