The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...

We remember Russell for his 11 titles, but the world remembers him for what he did to support the struggle for civil rights.

Not the other way around. An 1866 Richmond Examiner article highlighted early resistance to civil rights legislation. Editors referred to the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as "an insult to ...

A complaint filed by a civil rights organization on Wednesday claims that Calvin University, a Christian liberal arts university in Michigan, is discriminating on the basis of sex and race.

Originally enacted as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1866,, Section 1983 is typically associated with suits claiming local state officials such as police officers have violated a person's Fourth ...

A bill removing protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans from the state's civil rights act could be on Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk by Thursday night. House and Senate Republicans are ...

House Republican lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would remove protections against discrimination for transgender people from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Hundreds of LGBTQ rights advocates ...

DES MOINES — Iowa House Republicans advanced legislation that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act in an unprecedented move to repeal civil rights protections for ...

More than 2,500 people filled the Iowa Capitol Thursday as chanting filled the hallways from Iowans opposing a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. House lawmakers heard ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge marching from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Alabama state troopers ...