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 ...

The EEOC is seeking to overturn rules created decades ago to tackle discrimination in employment. The Trump administration ...

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

Organizers, including Selma foot soliders, say ruling is latest chapter in long battle over Black disenfranchisement in US The supreme court’s recent decision to gut the Voting Rights Act is an ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Oct 24, 2025, 01:23pm EDT Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping legal effort to obtain Americans’ sensitive data from states’ voter rolls is now almost entirely reliant upon the Civil Rights Act – a Jim Crow-era law passed to ...

Trump’s civil rights shake-up sparks fury as Black student programs come under fire - Under the Trump administration, efforts ...

Learn more about how baseball hall-of-famer Jackie Robinson partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. and had a tremendous impact on America's Civil Rights Movement. For those who followed Robinson’s ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, ...