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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
‘Stay tuned’: Civil rights groups prepare to take on Trump’s DEI ‘distortion campaign’ Civil rights leaders are still grappling with the weight of President Donald Trump’s swift and sweeping executive orders eliminating diversity, Read More
Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform Read More