Bexar County District Attorney names new chief of newly created Bexar County Public Integrity and Civil Rights division.

Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales has tapped Assistant District Attorney Nicole Thornbro to lead the new Public ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

Chicago attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and the ACLU of Illinois accused the federal government in court Thursday of violating immigration law and the constitutional rights of ...

“I fear they won’t get their calls answered, their complaints won’t move,” said Michael Pillera, a senior civil rights attorney for the Office for Civil Rights. “I truly don’t ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a ...

Chloe Kienzle of Arlington, Va., holds a sign as she stands outside the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as ...

Civil rights complaints in schools and colleges ... with a focus on the Justice Department, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the federal courts.

On Tuesday, a coalition of disability rights activists gathered outside the Texas State Capitol, braving the dusty winds to send Attorney General ... could strip some civil rights for millions ...

Dr. Charles Kimbrough — a civil rights activist and former president of the Nashville branch of the NAACP — died at the age of 98. Kimbrough was a Korean War veteran, retired veterinarian and ...

March 3 (UPI) --Iowa moved to remove civil rights protections for transgender people from state code, making it the first state to do so. Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, signed the bill on Friday ...