The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

In 1978, the Supreme Court issued its first significant affirmative action judgment in Bakke. The Court split 4-4-1. Four Justices argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barred the use of race in university admissions. Four justices contended that neither the Act nor the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the use of…

Lady Blood was a peace activist, civil rights campaigner and trade unionist.

CHICAGO — The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks this line in the documentary “Loudmouth,” the first on his legacy: “People call me to blow up issues. I’m the blow-up man and I don’t apologize for that.”

The agency said that it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state's majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system.

A Georgia sheriff on trial for abusing the rights of jail detainees who were strapped into restraint chairs has denied wrongdoing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced it is investigating whether Mississippi state agencies discriminated against the state’s majority-Black capital city by refusing to fund improvements for its failing water system

The civil rights group says the law is in conflict with a 40-year-old supreme court ruling that boycotts are protected speech

The son of the Rt Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey spoke of his father's legacy

Newly uncovered evidence linked police investigation into 1994 New Orleans murder to disgraced officer currently on federal death row