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Some sheriffs worried that Senate Bill 8 could create an unfunded mandate, while civil rights advocates warned about possible racial profiling.

A federal judge has ruled against immigration and civil rights advocates attempting to help migrants who had been sent to the Guantanamo Bay military base and trying to prevent further transfers

Trump administration has put hundreds of civil rights employees on leave, leaving Department of Education less able to field complaints from students

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs

People with albinism face widespread discrimination in many sub-Saharan African countries. In Tanzania, this minority has been subjected to extreme forms of violence. The government’s failure to protect their rights prompted the filing of a case before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The case was brought by…

“The president is trying to crush the opposition. He’s trying to crush Maine,” said attorney David Webbert

Holding hands with other prominent Black leaders, the Rev. Jesse Jackson crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 9, 2025, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday.” Like several survivors of that violent day in 1965, when police brutally attacked civil rights protesters, Jackson crossed the…

Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups

Election of Trump and threats to democracy front of mind as activists remember peaceful marchers attacked by police