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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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,

The Trump administration urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs.

A letter to the acting head of the division obtained by The Washington Post orders her to ensure that civil rights attorneys do not file “any new complaints, motions to interven

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and more widely prohibits employment discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion and sex.