The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

Civil rights division director Harmeet K. Dhillon has redirected her staff to focus on combating antisemitism, anti-Christian bias and what she calls “woke ideology.” ...

More than 100 lawyers are expected to leave under a “deferred resignation program” that allows them to resign while ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that ...

Civil Rights Division, a cornerstone of federal civil rights enforcement established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights Movement, has recently experienced a significant exodus of legal talent. Over ...

Employees are fearful the actions will undermine the spirit of a division formed in 1957 during the Civil Rights Movement and efforts to desegregate the South and protect the voting rights of ...

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

When you think of a successful protest movement, most Americans probably think of the American Civil Rights movement, and the ...

When Harmeet Dhillon was picked to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division last year, civil rights groups worried what a lawyer who had fought against voting rights would do to the ...

including enforcement of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which has protected Americans’ right to vote since the civil rights era. Yet, in this time of uncertainty and national instability ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

(AP) — Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev ... which led to the Voting Rights Act in August later that year.