In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States ...

A federal judge in Washington state dealt the first blow to President Donald Trump’s aspirations of rewriting the Constitution and throwing away a century-old legal precedent in his quest to eliminate ...

McDonald’s sued over HACER scholarship for Hispanic students, spotlighting diversity initiatives amidst legal shifts.

For example, in 1866, only a year after the war had ended ... rights legislation try to accomplish? Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation.

The lawsuit alleges that the program violates Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a Civil War-era law that bars ...

The activist behind the U.S. Supreme Court case that largely ended affirmative action in college admissions is now targeting ...

Lincoln’s successor, Democrat Andrew Johnson, vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and strongly resisted the passage of the 14th Amendment, which ensured equal rights and protections under the ...

McDonald’s HACER program is discriminatory because it is not open to students of all races, a federal lawsuit alleges.

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...