"By 1883, (Southern Democrats) had amassed enough power to overturn the Civil Rights Act of 1875." The U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 8-1 declared the civil rights law unconstitutional ...

In an expansive executive order, Mr. Trump directed the federal government to curtail the use of “disparate-impact liability,” a core tenet used for decades to enforce the Civil Rights Act of ...

Throughout the American story, Ruth has reverberated, reminding us, then and now – as we read her eponymous book once more on ...

Harvard University has agreed to give up ownership of photos of an enslaved father and his daughter who were forced to be photographed in 1850 for a racist study by a professor trying to prove the ...

Camilla, Georgia's Black Mayor Kelvin Owens, Interim City Manager Cheryl Ford, and former Election Superintendent Rhunette ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

President Donald Trump has re-upped his call for Congress to send to his desk by July 4 the massive tax and immigration package that is pending in the Senate, saying in a social media post that ...

A Norwich woman’s 14-year campaign to get Harvard University to give up photographs of two enslaved people she believes were her ancestors — who were forced to pose half-naked by a Harvard “scientist” ...

Attorneys for the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will be in federal court Monday, May 12 to begin their defense of a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which the current American ...

Unbeknownst to Dale Gibbs, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the killings under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, during the first Trump Administration, according ...

"Regardless of where one stands on DEI, violation of the Civil Rights Act is unlawful. It is time for higher education everywhere to focus on treating each student as an individual, rather than ...

In the complaint, filed Wednesday, the Equal Protection Project alleges that the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Dreamer’s Pathway Scholarship Program violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act ...