On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that ...

Bill Russell stopped for a red light in his shiny Lincoln.  Russell had recently delivered a third championship to the city ...

As a result of the Court's decision that they cannot enforce "any qualified provider" protections directly, beneficiaries are dependent on intervention by the HHS Secretary. Unless he bars them from ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...