“The playbook to come for our civil rights, our constitutional rights, and racial democracy,” civil rights leader Maya Wiley ...

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 ...

On June 23, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 will turn 50. The landmark civil rights law's famous first 37 words prohibit sex-based discrimination at educational institutions that receive ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of allowing a Mississippi street preacher to revive his federal civil rights lawsuit over a local ordinance prohibiting him from evangelizing outside ...

An Iowa law removing gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code took effect Tuesday, the first action of its kind in the United States. The new rollback of protections is ...

After a viral, nonviolent protest, federal authorities weaponized two civil rights laws to target prominent Black activists.

In April, the U.S. Department of Education used a landmark law intended, in part, to end racial discrimination to investigate Chicago Public Schools over a "Black Students Success Plan," after a ...

EXCLUSIVE — The Justice Department‘s Civil Rights Division is undergoing a complete internal transformation under President Donald Trump’s second term — not just of enforcement strategy but of ...

Maryland lawmakers granted the state Attorney General’s Office new powers to investigate and enforce civil rights laws in 2023, approving a key priority for newly elected Attorney General Anthony ...