The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

A new report from the National Urban League is citing what the civil rights and urban advocacy group says are some of the top threats to democracy for Black Americans

An advocacy group for prisoners’ rights has filed a civil rights lawsuit against corrections officers who allegedly ignored requirements that they videotape a prison-cell encounter with an inmate, who says he was sexually abused, beaten without provocation and taunted with words that evoked the 2020 death of George Floyd at…

A prominent civil rights group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new North Carolina law that will increase punishments for violent protests

The California Civil Rights Department has dismissed its caste discrimination lawsuit against two Cisco engineers

The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation after a U.S. Park Police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old who had driven away with an officer in the back seat after the teenager was found asleep in a suspected stolen car in Washington

FBI and federal prosecutors launch civil rights investigation into death of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin

A civil rights group is urging U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to follow through on promises made to thousands of people of Caribbean descent who were wrongly targeted as illegal migrants in the so-called Windrush scandal

Black Equity Organisation seeks judicial review over Suella Braverman’s decision to drop three reform commitments

Other lives: American-born civil rights campaigner who made London her home for more than 50 years