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

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

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

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

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

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.

Marlean Ames, 60, an employee at Indian River Juvenile Correctional Facility, contends gay applicants were unfairly given ...

Why was there no intervention to uphold the legally required equal access to education?" In the complaint, filed Wednesday, ...

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

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

Connecticut should enact a law restoring the remedies withdrawn by Cummings.