This autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a question with potentially far-reaching consequences for civil rights in the ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

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 ...

Millions of people took to the streets last weekend in solidarity against President Donald Trump. Protest signs and public speeches decried his administration’s attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people and ...

A major federal school dataset still contains wide-ranging civil rights information, but its newest release withholds results tied to nonbinary students and gender-identity-based harassment. The ...

In the summer of 1963, an estimated quarter of a million people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington. It was where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic 'I have a dream' ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to gut the federal office charged with protecting students from discrimination is creating new responsibilities for states that aren’t ready to take them up. Amid ...

Data obtained by The New York Times shows that the Education Department resolved 30 percent fewer discrimination complaints in 2025 compared with the previous year. By Michael C. Bender Michael C.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality Zachary Clary | Historian, Vanderbilt University Senate Majority Leader ...

As some try to pit us against each other, We the Majority know that we all benefit from one another's liberation, and that vilifying people based on their identities hurts even those of us who have ...

Explore Title VI and race, color or national origin discrimination. Learn more about ED's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement policies on Title VI and race, color or national origin ...