On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and everything he contributed to the movement. The ‘alpha-male animal’ rearming ...

Sixty years ago today, civil rights leader John Lewis led hundreds of voting rights activists over the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

Legal experts said that unwinding a civil rights-era bulwark designed to safeguard employees’ rights removes a crucial check ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to take steps to comply with nondiscrimination laws. Some fear women and people of color will lose opportunities.

Selma showed the world that change doesn’t come from waiting — it comes from marching, from pushing, from refusing to be ...

Its primary role has been enforcing an executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 at the height of the civil rights era. It required most federal contractors to take steps to ...

As previously reported, one of the first executive orders (EO 14173) issued by President Trump was to rescind Executive Order 11246, issued ...

Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...