By revoking Executive Order 11246, Donald Trump has erased key civil rights protections for federal contractors.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI policies targeted by the president.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights Act ...

Standing on his balcony at The Lorraine Motel, King was shot and killed April 4, 1968. The assassination sparked another series of riots in the Avondale neighborhood, which resulted in the deaths of ...

In a curious coincidence, the inauguration of Donald Trump falls on a day we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King ...

NASA's requested funding was spent on the Great Society, including building rapid transit system in several cities ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on ...

The first was the gigantic expansion of the Lyndon B. Johnson "war on poverty" welfare state in the 1970s with prices nearly doubling. Second was the post-COVID-19 spending blitz in the last year of ...

The front page of the Deseret News on Jan. 8, 1964, as President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to Congress, declaring a "War on Poverty." A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret ...

On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.” In 1790, President George Washington delivered the first State ...