Let’s call a spade a spade. Comedy is not always about good fun and cracking harmless jokes. Sometimes, it takes a ...

Many people assume federal civil-rights scrutiny of antisemitism at Harvard is a recent, partisan development. Headlines shout about President “Trump’s War on Harvard,” “Trump’s Harvard ...

Civil rights organizations on Tuesday condemned the Trump administration for deploying thousands of soldiers and marines to Los Angeles after a wave of immigration protests. The groups collec… ...

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits ...

In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Donald Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections.

News Analysis For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom.

One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault.

Civil rights complaints against Minnesota schools in limbo amid federal cuts The federal watchdog that Minnesota schools once feared is now a skeleton of itself.

Trump’s executive order calls for the repeal of agencies’ disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Photo illustration by Slate.

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections.

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights focus of the past 60 plus years.

Democrats are demanding answers about a shifting work focus, diminished staffing and demands of Trump loyalty within the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, including from the Californian ...