Trump memo on civil rights, DEI executive order undermine 60 years of progress | Opinion
President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.
Civil rights group files complaint against University of San Diego for alleged race discrimination
The Equal Protection Project has filed a complaint accusing the University of San Diego of discriminating on the basis of ...
The blasphemy of the DOE quoting the Civil Rights Act to hurt Black students
A new memo from the Department of Education invokes the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while twisting its intent ...
Trump reverses decades of civil rights advances
The Reagan administration took an early lead attacking affirmative action as a quota-based program. It was during the ...
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Trump officials start dismantling civil rights offices, as part of DOGE’s secret plan
The groundwork for such laws began with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in employment and sought to promote the integration of the largely segregated U.S. workforce.
How a central Illinois reverend helped shape American civil and voting rights
The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...
Why we’ve filed civil-rights complaints against DEI in New York and Wisconsin: ‘Discriminates openly based on race’
A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors ...
A straight white woman from Ohio is the focal point of a discrimination lawsuit that could reshape the legal landscape
The Supreme Court may alter Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act after a white woman challenged her ability to file a ...
Connecticut Should Restore Civil Rights Remedies
Connecticut should enact a law restoring the remedies withdrawn by Cummings.
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Iowa Governor Signs Bill Ending Transgender Civil Rights Protections
Rachel Mummey for The New York Times On the federal level, the Supreme Court ruled several years ago that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected gay and transgender people from workplace ...
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Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
If signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Republican-backed measure would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans. transcript Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights said Iowa would ...