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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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Prison guards forcefully shaved off his dreadlocks: The Supreme Court will determine if he can sue for violation of his religious rights

When prison officials in Louisiana cut the dreadlocks of a prisoner in their care, they may have violated his religious rights — or at least that’s what the Supreme Court is gearing up to determine. On Monday, Nov. 10, the nation’s highest court will hear arguments in the case of “Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety,” which will decide whether a devout Rastafarian can sue state prison officials for monetary damages after they forcibly shaved his hair […]

November 10, 2025

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‘Anti-woke is anti-Black’: California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls out attempts to drag America back to pre-voting rights

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been vocal about the Trump Administration and various policies and decisions since President Donald Trump assumed office for a second term in January. In a new interview with the “All The Smoke” podcast, Newsom isn’t mincing words about his thoughts regarding the conservative-majority Supreme Court and how it appears current government ideology isn’t moving forward but backward. “They’re putting America in reverse, to a 1960s world,” Newsom told Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. “You got […]

October 27, 2025

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Meet Janai Nelson, the attorney who just argued her first Supreme Court case to protect Black voting rights

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for a consequential voting rights case that could either solidify or dismantle the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965–which has protected Black voters from racial discrimination in the electoral process for six decades. Janai Nelson, a longtime civil rights attorney, was the woman who argued on behalf of Black voters and what is left of the VRA in Louisiana v. Callais. It was Nelson’s first case before the Supreme […]

October 16, 2025

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Supreme Court case could grant Trump and Republicans power to trample Black voting rights for one-party rule, advocates warn

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case that could effectively kill the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and allow the Republican Party to redraw voting maps without existing protections from racial discrimination for Black communities across the country. “They can literally create a permanent one-party rule system without the Voting Rights Act in place–and doing it at the expense of Black communities and Black voters,” Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told theGrio. The […]

October 16, 2025

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Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law. In arguments Wednesday, lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s second majority Black congressional district and make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of race in redistricting. “Race-based redistricting is fundamentally […]

October 13, 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