The Department of Education’s abandonment of traditional civil-rights litigation has effectively transported parents back in ...

Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws to ...

The complaints accuse the local governments of having unlawful racial quotas and embedding “equity mandates," that ...

A report published today is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era office that was tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in ...

*Its killers were many: a GOP-led gravediggers campaign determined to “make America great again” by undoing decades of progress, a U.S. Supreme Court that dismantled affirmative action, voting ...

As the Supreme Court revisits the Voting Rights Act, we remember that the journey to that decision was long and hard. Black Americans labored tirelessly for civil rights, including the right to vote—a ...

Civil rights group filed a complaint against University of California Irvine alleging illegal racial quotas were being used ...

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George Mason University has been found in violation of federal civil rights law, the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday, laying blame on President Gregory Washington’s shoulders. The ...