The Civil Rights Law is geared against discrimination by private businesses. And the court will rule that Congress has no power, under the Fourteenth Amendment, to outlaw private actions that may ...

1991-- Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis. 1994-- Byron De La Beckwith convicted of 1963 Medgar Evers assassination. 1995-- Supreme Court rules that federal programs ...

"Prisons exist to punish and rehabilitate people — not to torture and destroy them," says the report from the Chicago Lawyers ...

Civil rights groups are calling for the collapsed Baltimore bridge to be renamed when it is eventually rebuilt — claiming the late national anthem author whose name it carries was a racist slave ...

Northwestern encourages anyone in our community who has been the target of, or who witnesses, sexual misconduct, discrimination, or harassment based on a protected category to report the incident to ...

In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down what had been called the “heart” of the Voting Rights Act.

The original group of Freedom Riders consisted of 13 participants, seven Black (including late Georgia ... for Black power. While many have embraced the ideology that the civil rights movement ...

Learn more about digital discrimination in the hiring process and your digital rights when searching or applying for jobs. Navigating the new reproductive laws as a health care provider can be tricky.

According to a report from Axios, those in Trump’s orbit are gearing up for a widespread re-interpretation of civil rights laws to combat what they perceive as reverse racism against white ...

A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection, currently featuring a selection of our award-winning films from Stanley Nelson (Firelight), documenting pivotal moments in the 20th century civil rights ...

Jim Pillen this summer for a special session The family of a Minnesota man who was killed by a state trooper during a traffic stop has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, alleging that the fatal ...