Civil rights, however, are only one side of the conservative inversion of the logic of civil rights legislation. A decades-long push from the conservative legal movement to dismantle the Voting Rights ...

Though DOJ says there's "no basis" for criminal civil rights probe in ICE shooting case, some legal experts say the ...

The resignation follows the Trump administration’s unusual decision to not include the Civil Rights Division in an initial ...

At least six prosecutors, most of whom are supervisors in the Civil Rights Division's criminal section, will be leaving their ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas was lauded by four successor presidents as a Lincoln-esque groundbreaker for civil rights, but President Barack Obama also noted that Johnson also had long opposed ...

Choosing a good civil rights law program is critical for students who want to advocate for justice, equality and societal change. And aspiring civil rights lawyers should look for certain criteria to ...

Bridges, roads, buildings, railways, distribution systems, canals, dams, even lighthouses. Yes, lighthouses. If you encountered any of these structures today, or stopped to marvel at one on a recent ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...