The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort

Lawyers at America's largest civil liberties group say the agency’s lack of transparency violates federal disclosure requirements.

Corey Lewandowski warns of possible ICE presence at Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl show, prompting backlash from civil rights groups and California officials.

The government shutdown means further disruption for the U.S. Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid off by the Trump administration

The U.S. civil rights agency responsible for enforcing worker rights will stop investigating complaints about company policies that don’t explicitly discriminate but may disproportionately harm certain groups

Watson's most profound work lies in civil rights activism. After his own experience with racial discrimination at a bank, he began to focus on advocating for the civil rights of the Black community, bringing awareness to laws that were otherwise unknown to most.

Federal officials have sued two pro-Palestinian groups and some demonstrators involved in a heated protest last year outside a synagogue in northern New Jersey

Tanzania has conducted regular polls since the first multiparty elections in 1995. But they have often failed to meet democratic standards. The opposition has been persistently excluded and restricted, and media freedoms and civil rights have been suppressed. This pattern has come to be identified as electoral authoritarianism.

HHS refers Harvard University to Suspension and Debarment Program over alleged civil rights violations