Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...

During the era when civil rights came to the forefront of America, her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Community members came together to remember the legacy of civil rights icon Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes during her celebration of life service on Wednesday. From everyday New ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

The Congressional Black Caucus stood in firm support of Green's actions and, in their own move to disrupt, CBC members sang "We Shall Overcome," an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, as Johnson ...

Amanda McCoy [email protected] Every parking space along Missouri Avenue, East Annie Street and Tucker Street was full as mourners prepared to attend the funeral of civil rights legend Judge L.

The civil rights office lost the largest proportion of employees of all the programs affected – losing 243 of 557 workers, according to an analysis by the non-partisan Ed Reform Now.

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...

Education Department Layoffs Gut Its Civil Rights Office, Leaving Discrimination Cases in Limbo WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff ...