The Department of Justice is investigating the Baltimore City Health Department over allegations of racially segregated ...

Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court from the 1970s and 1980s recognized a narrow exception to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under ...

On January 14, 2026, the United States Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Civil Rights Division filed a federal suit seeking to strike down the State ...

Understanding Title VII as a law designed to advance both liberty and equality helps to illuminate the statute's religious employer exemption. Last month, the BYU Law Review published our article ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division has launched a sweeping civil rights investigation into the University of California (UC) system, including its individual campuses, over ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a stroke of a pen, President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964 — 50 years ago Wednesday — ended hundreds of years of legalized racial discrimination in America. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...

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 ...