The hearing in Boston on Friday comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the effort and decried what he described as ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over ...

What’s your definition of work? Ask the kids and they might say homework or chores, maybe a part-time job for teens. Today’s ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — (AP) — President Donald Trump fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace, an unprecedented move aimed at ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change. The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This landmark legislation outlawed segregation ...

“This monument, today, here on a main road for everyone to read, tells a broader story of civil rights, a movement, not just black and white," said Edwin Breeden, South Carolina Historical ...

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos said. Another memo ...