A senior Homeland Security official says the offices established to protect against abuse were cut because they are ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday eliminated numerous civil rights offices, ending oversight of its immigration ...

After a campus police officer grabbed student Ja’Liyah Celestine by the hair and kneed her in the face, she filed a federal ...

A Lower Merion dad, whose daughter faced discrimination based on her disability, laments a safety net that's "pretty well ...

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The Trump administration has removed explicit prohibitions against segregated facilities in federal contracts, a change that ...

The latest cuts further compound funding and staffing shortages that have plagued the Office of Civil Rights. The effects of these changes on the most vulnerable public school students will likely be ...

Nicole Sganga is CBS News' homeland security and justice correspondent based in Washington, D.C., reporting across all shows and platforms ... Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

Iowa became the first US state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code on Friday when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender ...

Hazel Dukes, a prominent civil rights advocate and ... seven decades fighting for voting rights, economic development, fair housing, and education for all. "From leading our National organization ...