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

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, ...

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

The state of California and immigrants’ rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Asian Law ...

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

Did Florida ever ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the 1972 amendment that declared women equal under the law?

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region' ...