The EEOC is seeking to overturn rules created decades ago to tackle discrimination in employment. The Trump administration ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over Louisiana’s congressional map.

On Tuesday morning, a cohort of Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act, a bill that would establish protections for individual civil rights when someone’s ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Kentuckians facing discrimination could soon have stronger legal options if a new bill passes. House Bill 468, sponsored by Rep. D. Elliott, passed the House Judiciary ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a voting rights bill Thursday that supporters said would counter changes to the federal Voting Rights Act.