California has been the target of more civil rights actions than any other state. The civil rights division is led by ...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as we take the time to look back on the life of Dr. King, we also want to honor those who have helped uplift his legacy and the legacy of multiple civil rights ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination. Credit...Illustration by Vartika Sharma Supported by By Nikole Hannah-Jones Last year, a little-known office in ...

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In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by ...

How Civil Rights Now Govern Private Business Relationships The traditional view that civil rights only apply to government actions has fundamentally changed. Today's legal landscape operates under ...

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration attorneys, she would tell their clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to ...

A trip through Birmingham’s Civil Rights District offers more than historic landmarks; it reveals a living Southern city ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...