File – Attorney Alphonso David speaks during a news conference Aug. 10, 2023, in New York. David, legal counsel for the Fearless Fund, said that there’s a “coordinated use of Section 1981 ...

On the day by which University of Iowa officials said they were told to close the campus’ renamed and reformed Division of ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned that DEI policies could violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That same day, it was revealed that President ...

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 ...

Governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other local officials are starting to vocally say no to President Donald Trump’s ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

“If signed, Iowa will become the first state in American history to remove a protected class from its Civil Rights Act,” wrote Erin Reed, a journalist and trans rights advocate, “setting a ...

WASHINGTON - In a move aimed at reducing “roadblocks” to its immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has fired most employees within the Department of Homeland Security's Office for ...

Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent based in Washington, D.C., reporting across all shows and platforms including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings," "CBS ...

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 Republican lawmakers voted Thursday to pass a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act — setting up the state to potentially be the first in the ...