President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

Bill O'Reilly said President Donald Trump would not be able to pressure members of the Senate like he is able to pressure ...

The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected ...

But it was Johnson, elevated to the presidency by the assassination of Kennedy, who turbocharged efforts to root out discriminatory practices in both the federal workforce and companies with which the ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...

Trump's more than 100 (and counting) executive orders on Day One will prove to be more entertaining than effective.