While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

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Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

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Article 8 of the UDHR underlines the sweeping customary requirement that everyone has the right to an effective remedy at law for acts violating the "…fundamental rights granted him by the law ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, community leaders, artists and advocates gathered at the Parkview at Cascades Park for the Day ...

"What we very much hope that in India, as in any country that is having elections, that everyone's rights are protected, including political and civil rights, and everyone is able to vote in an ...

Critics are calling for the practice to be abolished entirely, citing its discriminatory nature and harmful impact on women ...

The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls Right-wing extremists ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War ... of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states' rights. The Southern states wanted ...

E. Lavonia Allison, a civil rights activist and local political force, has died at 94. Allison died Tuesday “peacefully, surrounded by love,” her son announced around midnight. “Dr.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.