Hate speech' is notoriously hard to define and is usually a subjective characterization. But that's not going to stop ...

The Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into schools. By Michael C. Bender Michael C. Bender ...

In “Trump’s Civil-Rights Enforcer in Action” (The Weekend Interview, March 28), Tunku Varadarajan paints Harmeet Dhillon as a reasonable reformer of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division—a ...

‘Humanize me a little,” says the petite woman in a cashmere sweater at the end of a forthright, occasionally spiky interview. It’s unclear if this is a plea or a pleasantry. The woman is Harmeet Kaur ...

March 25 (Reuters) - Kristen Clarke, who led the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under Democratic President Joe Biden, will serve as the NAACP's general counsel as the largest U.S.

The former assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Joe Biden, Kristen Clarke, is joining the National Association for the Advancement of Color People (NAACP) as general counsel, ...

Mississippi civil rights leader John Perkins, 95, died Friday, March 13. He was at home under hospice care, with his wife and family, his daughter, V. Elizabeth Perkins, said. "To the world, he was Dr ...

All University of Washington students will have to take a civil rights training within the next couple of months, as part of a 2025 federal agreement made after an investigation into student ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. THAT BREAKING NEWS COMES FROM THE STATE HOUSE. JUST THIS AFTERNOON, GOVERNOR REYNOLDS HAS SIGNED A BILL IMPACTING SEVERAL CENTRAL IOWA CITIES. IT PREVENTS ...

Iowa Senate Republicans passed a bill blocking local governments from enacting protections against gender identity-based discrimination, sending their expansion of a landmark 2025 law to Gov. Kim ...