The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department’s broad mission

The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department

Trump's gutting of the Education Department could stymie justice for 17-year-old Ja’Liyah Celestine.

A federal jury has found Ivory Cousins guilty of three counts of depriving an inmate of his civil rights under… The post Brickbat: Locked in Here With Me appeared first on Reason.com.

The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."

In some parts of the world, a person may be secreted away or imprisoned by the government without any advanced notification of wrongdoing or chance to make a defense. This has not been lawful in the United States from its very inception, or in many other countries where the rule…

Demonstrations rarely lead to immediate policy change. But they are essential to building community and long-term resistance

Internal mission statements from Harmeet Dhillon pivots division’s priorities away from marginalized groups’ rights

Target's chief executive officer has met with the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose civil rights organization has encouraged consumers to avoid U.S. retailers that scaled backed their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Target’s chief executive officer is planning to meet this week with the Rev. Al Sharpton

Jessica Alba has defended the star-studded Blue Origin space flight amid a furious backlash to Jeff Bezos’ fiancée, Lauren Sánchez, singer Katy Perry, journalist Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, and civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen for taking part.