A public-interest law firm has filed federal civil-rights complaints against New York and Wisconsin on behalf of contractors ...

Parent's rights organization files civil rights complaint against Portland Public Schools alleging race-based discrimination.

A new memo from the Department of Education invokes the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while twisting its intent ...

On June 18, 1964, a group of Black and white protesters fighting for integration went swimming in the whites-only pool at the ...

The Reagan administration took an early lead attacking affirmative action as a quota-based program. It was during the ...

This "equality" was also affirmed in the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. Again, in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ...

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.

On February 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, a case involving the appropriate ...

Former Cleveland Browns offensive lineman John Wooten, who blocked for Jim Brown, was part of history in 1964. He offers ...

The Equal Protection Project has filed a complaint accusing the University of San Diego of discriminating on the basis of ...

Wooten, then a veteran guard who blocked for Jim Brown, was at the White House on July 2 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964. No, Wooten wasn’t inside ...