While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of ...

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation originating from the Biden administration and halting the pursuit of any ...

The rally at the historic Black church was intended in part to celebrate the civil rights legend and unite to protect those rights under the Trump administration. At the same time across town at ...

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls Right-wing extremists ...

President Trump issued a sweeping executive order revoking decades of diversity and affirmative action practices in federal government. Why it matters: This takes the current pushback on diversity, ...