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

The Selma to Montgomery March and Bloody Sunday deserve to be remembered for their importance to civil rights in the U.S.

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.

Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

cajoling President Lyndon Johnson to use his legendary legislative prowess and power to pass this monumental 1964 Civil ...

House lawmakers on Monday advanced a bill that would remove protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Not only did LBJ pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he also appointed the first Black cabinet member and Supreme Court Justice, respectively, while president. “History should make no mistake ...

was at the White House on July 2 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964. No, Wooten wasn’t inside the Oval Office when LBJ signed the sweeping measure into ...