Opening statements begin in the trial of a lawsuit alleging LAPD Officer Houston Tipping was intentionally killed during a ...

Black lawmakers call for Gov DeSantis to remove Attorney General James Uthmeier for pledging not to enforce affirmative action laws.

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Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., helped advocate for the AI Civil Rights Act last week in order to prevent companies from using what Democrats describe as "biased and discriminatory AI-powered ...

As the world marks Universal Human Rights Day on Wednesday, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta is inviting the public to explore its newly renovated galleries—completely free of ...

Dec. 7 (UPI) --Southwest Airlines will not have to pay the final $11 million portion of a record civil penalty tied to its 2022 holiday meltdown, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday ...

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division established an office focused on the Second Amendment, a move that is being slammed by civil rights and racial justice leaders who decried the ...

A judge ruled last week that Fayetteville police officers did not violate the civil rights of a woman in shooting her in July 2022. Jada Johnson called 911 from her grandparents' home on July 1, 2022, ...

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...

Tania Nemer is one of dozens of immigration judges fired by the Trump administration this year. But a new lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., suggests what happened to Nemer — and why — has the ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, a quiet act of defiance on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus ignited one of the most significant social movements in American history. When Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to ...

A new Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity at Rutgers University will centralize handling of discrimination, sexual misconduct and harassment complaints and compliance with federal and state ...