President John F. Kennedy conceived of the office in the early 1960s, saying the federal government should have experts who ...

Lawmakers are launching a new effort to close a legal loophole that means federal officials, including law enforcement agents ...

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.

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

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

A Muslim civil rights group has filed a lawsuit against Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The governor labeled the group, the ...

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

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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 ...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has filed a civil rights lawsuit against Bill Pulte, the Trump administration's Federal Housing ...