For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld ...

Recognizing our interconnectedness and humanity is exactly what King envisioned when he spoke of a beloved community rooted ...

Before President Donald Trump's administration started dismantling the Education Department, the agency served as a powerful ...

For too long, an environmental statute known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has been weaponized to stall growth in the United States. But ...

More than 200 attorneys formerly employed in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division bashed the Trump administration Tuesday for turning its “core mission upside down” as it took a series of ...

The U.S. Education Department is bringing back hundreds of employees in its Office for Civil Rights who were placed on paid administrative leave earlier this year, according to a Dec. 5 email to those ...

The Education Department is calling Office for Civil Rights employees who were fired earlier this year back to work. The Trump administration tried to ax half of the Education Department’s OCR staff ...

WASHINGTON – Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work. A Dec. 5 email ...

HUD warned Lexington the 1999 Fairness Ordinance may risk federal funding. Commission says loss of HUD contract would cripple investigations and budget. City reviews funding exposure as HUD shifts ...

Fifty years ago, just after Thanksgiving of 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the landmark law that created special education as it exists today, and ...