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 ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear ...

WASHINGTON — Seizing on allegations of federal law enforcement officials' committing constitutional violations as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, Democrats have launched a new ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an ...

Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, according to a report. Jackson, 84, is being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is under observation for ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights is expanding its exploration of the country’s racial dynamics despite a surge of government resistance. The papers of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The proposed closure would leave Texas as the only state without an agency dedicated to enforcing housing discrimination laws. Texas lawmakers are advancing legislation to eliminate the Texas ...

During the recent government shutdown, some Republicans in Congress have expressed sympathy for the roughly seven hundred and thirty thousand federal employees who have been performing essential ...

NEW YORK — There are new updates on qualifying for the NYS Civil Service that is expect to open more doors to those seeking employment. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday the Department ...

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard in “all ...

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A prominent Cornell law professor plans to file a federal civil rights complaint against the Ivy League university after the outing of an Israeli student whistleblower who claimed he was excluded from ...