A fired immigration judge says she was dismissed from her job because of her gender, her status as a dual citizen of Lebanon and the fact that she once ran for municipal office in Ohio as a Democrat.

Trump administration secures major agreement requiring Northwestern to implement antisemitism training and protect Jewish ...

The federal government is ending its civil rights investigation at Northwestern University and restoring $790 million in ...

Born in 2006, a year after Parks' death at age 92, Alvin Williamson Jr. has learned about his family's place in U.S. history ...

President John F. Kennedy conceived of the office in the early 1960s, saying the federal government should have experts who ...

Rutgers President William Tate IV announced he is opening an Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity amid federal ...

A federal judge in Florida wants civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the U.S. and Florida to hammer out a settlement in a ...

America First Legal alleged in a civil rights complaint that the city of Chicago practices in racial discrimination based on ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A Muslim civil rights group that Texas' governor labeled a “foreign terrorist organization” filed a ...

Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, has died in prison still fighting conviction in the killing of a Fulton County deputy. He was 82 and suffered cancer.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's family says that the civil rights leader has been released from a hospital where he was treated for ...

He fought to end racial profiling by police and to boost funding for urban schools as pastor of the St. Matthew AME Church in ...