Attorneys for the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will be in federal court Monday, May 12 to begin their defense of a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which the current American ...

O ne of the most consequential threats to civil rights law in a generation has just emerged — and not from the political right, but from the progressive left. The First Circuit, ...

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 ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...

Did you know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t supposed to include job protections for women? Title VII—the section that covers job discrimination—included race, color, religion and national ...

The Administration. A century's unfinished business ; A great change is at hand ; The heart of the problem ; Tell 'em about the dream! -- The House. A compromise between polar positions ; A good man ...

*Its killers were many: a GOP-led gravediggers campaign determined to “make America great again” by undoing decades of progress, a U.S. Supreme Court that dismantled affirmative action, voting ...

A report published today is the first systematic empirical study of government investigations and private lawsuits against US colleges and universities under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

On April 23, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order that is intended to limit employees' and applicants' abilities to use the disparate impact theory of liability to establish ...

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