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Civil rights groups blast new Justice Department memo rescinding press protections

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association

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The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department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