The Latest Breaking News from Civil Rights

The 1965 law, a rare and profound act of consensus, has been hollowed out. We cannot forget the power Dr King saw in the right to vote

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state’s voter ID requirements for mail-in ballots do not violate the Civil Rights Act.

Civil rights lawyers say a Florida police officer had his gun aimed at a Black college student shortly before the driver was pulled from his car and beaten in a recorded encounter that recently sparked widespread outrage

As the young kids say, 1980s X-Men stories were a different vibe. You had to be there. The original 1963 X-Men comics found their inspiration from the 1960s Civil Rights era. They got canceled but were revitalized in 1975 with Giant-Sized X-Men #1. They then found a narrative groove in…

The Trump administration is investigating the Oregon Department of Education after receiving a complaint from a conservative non-profit group alleging the state was violating civil rights law by allowing transgender girls to compete on girls sports teams

Consent decrees meant to curb police abuse are ending in more than 20 cities, including Breonna Taylor’s Louisville

The Supreme Court has blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that would gut a landmark federal civil rights law for millions of people

A judge has scheduled sentencings in December for five former Memphis police officers convicted of federal charges in the beating death of Tyre Nichols

Plaquemines parish, Louisiana, will not be forced to follow the law for the first time since the 1960s