From the days of slavery to the halls of Congress, many civil rights activists have shaped the conscience of nations and redrawn the maps of moral possibility. Some changed the world in the past ...

Each of these measures is shocking on its own. Together, they reveal a much larger transformation unfolding in U.S. civil-military relations. The Pentagon’s civilian leaders are pushing a new bargain ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work ...

The Internal Revenue Services (IRS) terminated staff members in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance on Friday ahead of a larger slated reduction in force according to multiple reports.

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department's ...

In an Instagram post on Tuesday night, actor Alec Baldwin claimed that Americans are currently living in a "pre-Civil War" environment. The embattled "Rust" actor told his followers on Instagram ...

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act provides for federal criminal and civil penalties for harms from racketeering. Wednesdays ruling in Medical Marijuana, Inc v. Horn, like so many ...

The lawsuit claims that the executive order disenfranchises millions of voters. Civil rights groups, including the NAACP, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump's ...