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 ...

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 ...

After the Department of Health and Human Services issued findings accusing Harvard of violating civil rights law, the ...

Bob Dylan — or Bobby Dillon, according to an article — performed in Mississippi, where he sang in honor of Medgar Evers.

The acting chair of the federal agency that enforces workers rights acknowledged during a Senate hearing Wednesday that transgender workers are protected under civil rights laws but defended her ...

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 ...