Civil rights attorney Ben Crump spoke with ABC News on Tuesday to offer his thoughts on the move by the Trump administration ...

The commission’s yearlong investigation will include a probe of how the Department of Education and Department of Justice ...

president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “This should make Americans both angry and deeply worried. This is more than just a changing course of ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

Kristen Clarke, the first Black woman to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer, called leaving the Justice Department "a ...

the judicial revival of post-Civil War civil rights laws and Thurgood Marshall’s elevation to the Supreme Court. In such a society, when individuals look at one another, they see only two things ...

The Trump administration has told the Civil Rights division at the Justice Department to stop pursuing any new indictments, cases, or settlements related to civil rights violations, effectively ...

WASHINGTON − Moments after Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a farewell address to his staff, Kristen Clarke returned to her office in the Justice Department to reflect on her own ...

“Illegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine ...

President Donald Trump has never been shy about his disdain for diversity programs that his conservative supporters have long said act as racial discrimination towards white Americans. In his ...

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