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 ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the federal office charged with protecting students from discrimination is creating new responsibilities for states that aren’t ready to take them up. Amid ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new ...

The Education Department dismissed civil rights complaints at such a rapid clip this year that former officials and advocates are concerned about a core agency function amid Trump administration plans ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to ...

Data obtained by The New York Times shows that the Education Department resolved 30 percent fewer discrimination complaints in 2025 compared with the previous year. By Michael C. Bender Michael C.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality Zachary Clary | Historian, Vanderbilt University Senate Majority Leader ...

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In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration attorneys, she would tell their clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers ...

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