The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a federal civil rights investigation into Washington Corrections Center for ...

The U.S. Department of Justice states it will investigate allegations of deprivation of female prisoners’ Eighth Amendment ...

By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton marched into history as a teenager in the 1960s, when she was among the hundreds of peaceful protesters attacked by ...

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the city considered the crucible of the modern Civil Rights Movement to push back against ...

The racially and politically charged case – one of the biggest the court will decide this term − grew from a long battle over Louisiana’s congressional map.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Jolly says that if he’s elected in November, he would establish an Office of Civil ...

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has been President Donald Trump’s greatest weapon in forcing schools to ...

Saturday's "All Roads Lead to the South" rally was the first mass organizing response after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ...

The service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, with the public invited to attend.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) came armed with gotcha questions at Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern ...

The Memphis Police Department is investigating a bomb threat at the National Civil Rights Museum on Saturday evening, ...