City Council expected to sign off on a pact over allegations police, officials violated the constitutional rights of ...

Civil rights groups gathered in Ellerbe to stand against racially-motivated violence following the shooting of an Amazon ...

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) has rewritten a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows for statistical disparities to be used as proof of discrimination. The DOJ’s decision to ...

Even after seeing a video of this Maryland first grader, injured when he was secluded in a small room at school, state lawmakers were reluctant to ban the practice. Credit: Photo illustration: The ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is grappling with a mounting backlog of school and college discrimination cases, prompting an unusual request from ...

A spokesperson said there are no plans to permanently rehire laid-off staff, despite the department's legal challenges over the March firings. The U.S. Department of Education is asking hundreds of ...

During her June confirmation hearing, Kimberly Richey, who now leads the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, said she’d always advocate for the office to have “the resources ...

AG Kwame Raoul wins a lawsuit against two Illinois residents for racial intimidation, resulting in $90,000 in damages.

EXCLUSIVE — A conservative education watchdog filed a federal civil rights complaint on Wednesday, accusing Portland Public Schools of illegally steering millions of taxpayer dollars into a ...

Ali Najmi, formerly in private practice, will helm an advisory committee with a mandate to create a more legally and ...

Two years after Aeriel Gallegos was killed by her former boyfriend, her family has filed a civil rights lawsuit accusing San ...