The civil rights organization is leading the civil lawsuit, Smith v. Trump, on behalf of several U.S. Capitol Police officers ...

A Department of Justice division tasked with protecting basic individual rights is expected to shift its position on key ...

P resident-elect Donald Trump's pick to be the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights is an attorney, conservative ...

The picture is part of Roberts’ effort to claim the stories of heroic judges who battled Jim Crow in the civil rights era as ...

The University of Northern Iowa is facing a civil rights complaint for allegedly discriminating on the basis of race and sex.

Judge Mark Norris made the ruling after attorneys for Tyre Nichols’ estate and his mother argued the DOJ investigation into ...

Civil rights lawyer Jennifer Bonjean told Judge Carol Howard she believed State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke was trying ...

A federal civil rights lawsuit tied to a vehicle that was rented during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests was settled last ...

The Loudoun County courthouse, named after Charles Hamilton Houston, has been recognized as a national historical landmark ...

A former police officer turned attorney plans to file a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a 71-year-old man injured during an altercation with Oklahoma City police.

Harmeet K. Dhillon, a Trump loyalist, would oversee federal efforts on antidiscrimination and voting rights cases.

Even after Judge Collins J. Seitz Sr. and attorney Louis L. Redding's deaths, both men are being recognized for their life's work in advocacy against racial injustice.