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The Civil Rights Inversion: Where Up is Down and Down is Up

That is the Republican mantra now.Ever since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, Republicans have been chipping away at them through court cases like Shelby Cou...

The Rights of Black People Are Under Attack. Decent White People Need to Fight for Them.

The rights of people of color must be the hill we take and are willing to die on, lest our fragile, imperiled Republic dies instead. The post The Rights of Black People Are Under A...

Thousands March at Edmund Pettus Bridge Over Black Voting Rights

Hundreds of faith leaders and voting rights activists marched in silence across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Saturday, May 16, returning to the site of one of the most visceral mome...

Civil Rights Groups Launch Southern Voting Rights Mobilization Following Supreme Court’s Callais Decision

Civil and voting rights organizations across the South are launching a wave of rallies, trainings and grassroots mobilizations in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in...

From DEI to Equal Protection: New Direction in Civil Rights Policy

The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and...

Show-Me DOJ & Missouri Collab Against DEI

A glimpse at a quota crackdown as the era of Civil Rights begins to fade . . . Check-it: Read more at tonyskansascity.com

Allies United Holds Cross‑Community Meetings to Protect Civil Rights Across Chicagoland  

The coalition is fostering collaboration, elevating local concerns, and uniting residents in efforts to safeguard the rights of marginalized groups. The post Allies United Holds Cr...

US: Allow Those With Felony Convictions to Vote

Click to expand Image Spellman Bernard Smith, Jr., 78, center, stands in line with other...

ACLU-NJ and Partners File Brief in Support of Rep. LaMonica McIver 

The ACLU of New Jersey, along with the National Women’s Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, today filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third...

It is Past Time to Retire Jim Crow

by Ray Cardello at CDN - The Supreme Court delivered a ruling a few weeks ago that the entire country should have celebrated, finding that it is unconstitutional for states to rea...

Growing Partisan Divide in U.S. Civil Rights Law

The increasing polarization of American politics has been a subject of extensive research, yet few studies have illuminated the tempo and texture of legislative support for civil r...

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to protest redistricting by southern Republican state legislatures targeting Black Democratic members...

From Reconstruction to Recruiting: The SCORE Act and the Fight for Black Athletic Freedom

*In American history, Black mobility has always triggered institutional response. From Reconstruction’s collapse to Jim Crow labor controls, from redlining to college athletic expl...

Rehabilitation Act-Race Discrimination (Title VII & §1981)-Employment Law

The found Lewis was employed by the Indiana Department of Transportation (Department), where she managed federal relocation claim vouchers for individuals displaced by highway cons...

Passed Down Through the Generations

[Editorial]You hear a lot about family values, but sometimes those family values started with the enslavement of human beings, and they have been passed down through the generation...

Early audition for 2028 hopefuls focuses on civil rights issues

Democratic speakers were pressed to address voting rights, affirmative action and other issues at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s four-day conference.

Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment and prepare for legal fights

WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center this week was met with much outrage but little surprise from civil rights leaders, who have for more th...

Florida’s Major Changes to Civil Rights Claim Filing Rules

On May 22, 2026, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 1407, which revises the procedural framework governing the commencement of civil actions and administrative remedies u...

ACLU-NJ Commends Passage of New Jersey Voter Empowerment Act by Senate Judiciary Committee 

The Senate Judiciary Committee today passed the John R. Lewis Voter Empowerment Act of New Jersey, a bill that will protect and expand voting rights in New Jersey. The following st...

Voting rights

Protesters at the US Capitol rally for voting rights after Supreme Court ruling

WASHINGTON — About 100 rallygoers gathered on Capitol Hill Wednesday to hear from activists and members of Congress protesting the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike do...

CARTOON: The Supreme Court weighs in

Justice should be colorblind.

Thousands attend protests in Selma and Montgomery for voting rights

Thousands of people joined demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery on Saturday to protest redistricting by southern Republican state legislatures targeting Black Democratic members...

In the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend Black political representation

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the cradle of the modern Civil Rights Movement to mobilize a new voting rights era as conservative states dismantle congressional districts...