Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump is ordering the release of classified documents surrounding the ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...

In the final days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, his Interior Department pulled a fast one on him, renaming ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...

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

President Donald Trump has instructed all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave “immediately” ...

Learn about the history of Executive Order 11246 following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI programs and ...

President Trump issued a broad executive order tilted “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” ...