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DOJ Civil Rights Division slammed for new 2nd Amendment office despite abandoning cases of racial discrimination, voting rights

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division established an office focused on the Second Amendment, a move that is being slammed by civil rights and racial justice leaders who decried the DOJ’s reversal on investigating claims of racial discrimination and other social justice issues. The Second Amendment Rights Section will be dedicated to protecting gun rights, an issue that has been a long-standing concern for conservatives. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has shifted the focus […]

December 6, 2025

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Democrats introduce AI Civil Rights Act to protect Black Americans and others from biased algorithms

As the AI industry explodes in the United States, backed by hundreds of billions of dollars in investments from tech companies, Democratic lawmakers and civil rights leaders are calling on Congress to protect Black Americans and marginalized groups from bias. “We need to be able to trust that when as we, as Black Americans, go to apply for a bank loan, secure employment or even enter our own homes, we will not be denied on the basis of algorithmic bias,” […]

December 3, 2025

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Trump administration to further dismantle Education Department, move Civil Rights office: ‘Cruelty is the point’

The Trump administration is reportedly taking further steps to achieve its goal of dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, including the extraordinary measure of relocating critical department offices and their work to other federal agencies. The moves would effectively leave the Education Department, first created in 1979, unequipped and obsolete. According to CNN, the White House will soon announce that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Indian Education, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the […]

November 18, 2025

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NY Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed by DOJ to investigate whether she violated Trump’s civil rights

The Trump administration is continuing to fulfill President Donald Trump‘s campaign promise to seek retribution against his political enemies. The U.S. Department of Justice opened up federal investigations into the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. The nation’s top law enforcement agency said it is seeking to determine whether James violated the civil rights of Trump or others. According to The New York Times, James’s office was sent two subpoenas related to two cases she prosecuted: her civil […]

August 8, 2025

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Urban League declares a ‘state of emergency’ for civil rights in the US in response to Trump

One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic advancement in response to President Donald Trump ‘s upending of civil rights precedents and the federal agencies traditionally tasked with enforcing them. The National Urban League’s annual State of Black America report accuses the federal government of being “increasingly determined to sacrifice its founding principles” and “threatening to impose a uniform education system and a homogenous workforce that sidelines […]

July 17, 2025

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Booker breaks Senate floor speech record held by segregationist who opposed Black civil rights

U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., broke the record for the longest speech given on the Senate floor on Tuesday as he protested the first 71 days of President Donald Trump’s administration. Booker officially broke the record at 7:19 p.m. Ironically, Booker surpassed the previous record — 24 hours and 18 minutes — held by Sen. Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who used the Senate procedure known as a filibuster in an effort to block the passage of landmark civil rights legislation […]

April 1, 2025

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This Harvard-educated civil rights lawyer was laid off from the DOE—now she’s fighting back

Sheria Smith was living her professional dream before getting laid off from the U.S. Department of Education. A Harvard graduate who’d helped children as a teacher before becoming a lawyer, Smith pursued public service over fancy, high-paid corporate positions early in her career so she could give back. That clarity of purpose led her to the DOE in 2016 to accept a position as a civil rights attorney. “It was really important to me that Black students, students like me, […]

March 20, 2025

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Civil rights groups sue Trump over ‘malicious’ and ‘unlawful’ anti-DEI, LGBTQ orders

A coalition of civil and human rights groups is hitting back at President Donald Trump and his administration over executive orders barring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility funding and LGBTQ-related health care. The Legal Defense Fund and Lambda Legal are representing the nonprofit advocacy organizations — National Urban League, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago — in a legal challenge to three of Trump’s anti-equity executive orders. The orders call for a range of actions […]

February 19, 2025

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Civil rights groups warn of FBI’s past abuses of Black leaders in opposing Trump nominee Kash Patel

As President Donald Trump‘s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel, gets grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday for his confirmation hearing, civil rights groups are sounding the alarm about his qualifications and warning of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s past abuses against Black leaders and other citizens. In a letter addressed to Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., more than fifty civil rights and advocacy groups urged the committee to oppose […]

January 31, 2025