While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

After the U.S. Department of Justice froze civil rights actions, Hazleton officials didn’t raise their hopes too high that ...

There were tears, yells and a call of “out of order” but by the end of the day Virginia’s Senate on Tuesday passed three ...

The Supreme Court said Tuesday it won’t hear civil rights groups’ appeal seeking to invalidate Pennsylvania’s dating ...

The state of Georgia is seeking another Supreme Court showdown over the Voting Rights Act. The state asked a federal appeals court to interpret the 1965 law in a way that could make it much harder to ...

The rule in question impacts mail-in voters in Pennsylvania, who are required to place their completed ballot in a secrecy ...

Attorneys in DOJ’s Civil Rights Division voted on Jan. 9 and its Environment and Natural Resources Division on Jan. 10 to ...

Nana Watson, Columbus NAACP president, was told by national NAACP to resign, citing allegations of wrongdoing. Here's what ...

Last January, the facility divided Jennings residents and its city council when it attempted to rezone its property on 203 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by ...

A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised ...

Director of the Voting Rights Project at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “Using all the tools and protections we secured in the New York Voting Rights Act and the Municipal Home Rule Law, every ...