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

An analysis of the Trump administration's cuts to the agency shows its civil rights enforcement and research arms are hit particularly hard.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sixty schools — including the University of South Florida and University of Tampa — are under investigation by the Department ...

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