While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .
President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.
Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.
A federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order that aims to restrict automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.” The order Mr. Trump signed on Monday would reverse decades of precedent and affect children born to undocumented or temporary immigrants.
The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.
One of President Donald Trump’s several broken campaign promises was highlighted by a question Thursday as he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he refused to say if Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine would be over in a year.
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.
Massive protests are out. Democrats are taking a more methodical approach to Donald Trump’s second term in office.
President Joe Biden is spending the last full day of his presidency in South Carolina — a state that helped propel him to the White House in 2020.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast takes place every year to honor the civil rights leader’s legacy, and this year, it happened just as a new president was being sworn in.
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 Opportunity Commission and more widely prohibits employment discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion and sex.
The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ people.