The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

The California Civil Rights Department accused Microsoft of retaliating against employees who took parental, disability, pregnancy, or family-care leave.

Signed into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”

Governor Jeff Landry said he couldn’t ‘wait to be sued’ – and now a First Amendment court battle begins

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has toured the home of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers in Mississippi’s capital city

Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency

Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a holiday, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year

Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. To Moses, who was a teacher as well as an activist, math literacy is a civil right: a requirement to earning a living wage in modern…

The decision is a major blow to the Anti-Defamation League

Civil rights lawyer and jazz pianist Bryan Stevenson and Pulitzer-winning jazz artist Wynton Marsalis are debuting a new live performance album of historic jazz records created in time for Juneteenth to protest racial injustice