On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

During his first two years in office, Johnson passed a host of historic liberal legislation as part of his Great Society campaign, from the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act to the ...

Hundreds in Henderson County participated in a series of "Good Trouble Lives On" protests in memory of a prominent civil ...

The investigation over Harvard’s treatment of Jewish and Israeli students is the latest in the battle between the White House and the university.

The Trump administration said a failure by the university to enact certain changes would put at risk its access to federal financial resources.

Iowa has become the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code.

Lyndon Byers, who played nine NHL seasons with the Boston Bruins and helped them reach the Stanley Cup Final in 1988 and 1990, has died at the age of 61. Selected by the Bruins in the second round ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Monday that an investigation had concluded Harvard University violated federal civil rights law for failing to address harassment of Jewish and ...

Cornell is facing federal civil rights complaints from the America First Policy Institute for its hiring practices that they claim to be discriminatory.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in an apparent attempt to prevent the Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson, from passing President Donald Trump’s massive budget bill in the dead of night, has ...

The Trump administration has issued Harvard a "Notice of Violation" under the Civil Rights Act for its handling of alleged discrimination against Jewish students.

The Trump administration has formally accused Harvard University of violating civil rights laws by not doing enough to combat campus antisemitism, and is threatening to pull all federal funding fro… ...