Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, ...

Department of Education Organization ... co-educational institution sued to stop enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. government's request for an assurance of compliance ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

which the Justice Department said violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "No one may be denied the right to use hotel facilities because of their national origin," said Assistant Attorney General ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979, but its origins date back much farther. Take us back to post-Civil War, when ...

The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.

The job of enforcing the administration’s position on those issues will largely fall to the Justice Department ... mission of the Civil Rights Division, which was established by the passage of the ...

Advocates and legal experts say one order, which revokes the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, also known as Title VII under the Civil Rights Act, will have a chilling effect.

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of ... the Department’s goal of ensuring that the Federal Government speaks with one voice in its view of the law ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

President Donald Trump ramped up his efforts to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government ... Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting ...