Lawmakers are launching a new effort to close a legal loophole that means federal officials, including law enforcement agents ...

Boca Raton Sen. Tina Scott Polsky and Lake Worth Rep. Debra Tendrich are working to ensure that all public schools in Florida ...

A Pa. senator announced legislation to create an agency to enforce protections that the federal government can’t, or won’t.

A battle over Louisiana's congressional map led to the racially and politically charged case. Could it impact the Voting Rights Act?

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 19, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — With the Essence Festival in New Orleans, civil rights leaders sounded the alarm after President Donald Trump signed the budget bill into law at the White House. “What they just ...