On this day in 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, and Ruby Bridges became some of the first Black students ...

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 ...

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 group of civil rights attorneys is in town to learn better strategies to keep police and law enforcement accountable. The National Police Accountability Project held a two-day gathering in Kansas ...

Students at Northwestern University sued the school over required antisemitism training they say violates their civil rights. The plaintiffs argue the training silences criticism of Israel and ...

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 ...

The CSU Chancellor’s Office issued an Interim Nondiscrimination Policy on March 4 in order to align with the Department of Education requirements for nondiscrimination policies. The training for ...

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Multiple civil rights organizations and advocacy groups have spoken out against a series of sweeping guidelines that the White House invited nine universities — including Penn — to sign in exchange ...

A Florida man who screamed racial slurs at a Black military officer while attempting to drive him off the road was rightfully sentenced, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. It was an “easy” ...