Jazmyne Owens interviews GeDá Jones Herbert on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its impacts on civil rights protections and enforcement in public schools.

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 19, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ...

America First Legal alleged in a civil rights complaint that the city of Chicago practices in racial discrimination based on ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

Boca Raton Sen. Tina Scott Polsky and Lake Worth Rep. Debra Tendrich are working to ensure that all public schools in Florida ...

O ne of the most consequential threats to civil rights law in a generation has just emerged — and not from the political right, but from the progressive left. The First Circuit, ...

On Monday a legal advocacy organization filed a civil complaint claiming some of Radford University’s practices violate Title ...

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights confirmed it has one “certified” complaint and two others in the initial stages of ...

RALEIGH -- A North Carolina law limiting protections to LGBT people violates federal civil rights protections and can't be enforced, The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The Justice ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...

The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to ...

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has filed a formal charge of discrimination against McLaren Regional Medical Center ...