David Richards, a prominent Austin labor and civil rights attorney whose work helped reshape political representation for minorities in Texas, died Thursday at age 92.

A jury in a federal civil rights case awarded $404,000 to Tommy Meadows after state prison staff took him to the floor, pepper sprayed him while handcuffed in a strip cell and put him in solitary ...

(The Center Square) – Medical group Do No Harm filed a federal civil rights complaint against a Texas healthcare system for using “racially discriminatory criteria” when selecting its vendors, some ...

GETTING ANSWERS ON KEEPING POLICE ACCOUNTABLE. A GROUP IS IN TOWN BECAUSE OF RECENT PROBLEMS RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY. AT ISSUE, THE DEATH OF AN INMATE INSIDE THE WYANDOTTE COUNTY JAIL. INVESTIGATIVE ...

Oakland civil rights leader and former East Bay Municipal Utility District Director William “Bill” Patterson, who had been called the “Conscience of the District,” died at the age of 94 on Tuesday.

A Glencoe Elementary School parent filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging that Portland Public Schools has engaged in race-based discrimination by using a staffing formula that partly prioritizes ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Posters and pamphlets outside the “Civil Rights in Higher Education Town Hall” at the Ford School ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the ...

Leamon Pierce, former City Councilman and civil rights activist, has died at 84. He was the founder of Liberty Bonding Company that he started in 1974. He was the first black professional bail ...

ATLANTA — The Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta is undergoing a $58 million renovation, led by the woman-run Juneau Construction Company. The renovation, which includes the addition of ...

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights opened an investigation into how President Donald Trump’s administration has responded to allegations of antisemitism at Columbia and at a dozen other universities, ...