Frank Chuman, Pioneering Lawyer for Japanese American Rights, Is Dead at 105
Frank Chuman, a lawyer whose experience in a World War II internment camp in California motivated a decades-long career fighting ...
Tag: Civil Rights and Liberties
Trump’s Wishes Aside, Censoring Racial History May Prove Difficult
Late last month, when two federal grants to the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana were rescinded, the Trump administration seemed to ...
Justice Dept. Investigates Minnesota Prosecutor Office Over Race Policy
The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division said on Saturday that she was investigating a new policy in ...
Justice Dept.’s Criminal Inquiry of Columbia Protesters Raised Alarms Internally
In an unusual move, Mr. Bove insisted that the prosecutors appeal the ruling to a district court judge, these people ...
Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77
Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first ...
Another Lawsuit, This Time in Colorado, Over Trump’s Use of the Alien Enemies Act
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Monday night from using a powerful wartime statute to deport to ...
Trump Administration Dropped Policy Prohibiting Contractors From Having Segregated Facilities
The Trump administration has removed a longstanding directive from the civil rights era that explicitly prohibited federal contractors from allowing ...
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
The sit-in movement that began at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960 and soon spread to other ...
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