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

During Jim Crow segregation, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial ...

And no legitimacy in a civil rights framework that makes identity, rather than conduct, the axis of disbelief. This decision did not expand the law. It honored it.

The DOJ demanded California’s public school districts certify that they do not allow transgender athletes to compete in girls’ sports, escalating a Title IX fight.

The class of ships is named after civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis, who died in 2020. ... where he quickly became a national symbol of LGBTQ+ political empowerment.

Vizguerra's daughter Luna will accept the RFK Human Rights Award at a ceremony on Thursday, June 5, in D.C. Vizguerra called the award "a very important recognition" during her speech on Monday.

Chalk up another cherished American symbol that has quietly vanished under Donald Trump’s watch. A bust of Dr. Martin Luther ...

Alabama’s Selma-to-Montgomery march began as a memorial to Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young Black civil rights activist who was killed by police on Feb. 26, 1965. The march became primarily a symbol ...

Several Navy ships named after civil rights leaders may be renamed by Pete Hegseth in his push for "reestablishing the warrior culture" of the military.

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it has notified the accreditor for Columbia University that the school violated federal anti-discrimination laws, threatening the university's ...

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, for example, has moved to dismiss several Biden-era lawsuits against police departments in Kentucky and Minnesota, saying the cases claimed ...