While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required affirmative action by federal contractors.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.

National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal diversity and affirmative action practices "an assault on the Civil Rights Movement and everything we've achieved in the last 60 years.

Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio refused to comment on President Donald Trump’s pardons and commutations of more than 1500 people convicted of crimes surrounding the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol,

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of ... The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump’s rhetoric and stances on race and civil rights during ...

The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ people.

We’ve lost an election, but we’ve not lost our minds,” Al Sharpton tells theGrio. The King family also weighed in