A Joe Biden appointee, with the help of fellow Democrat commissioners and one Republican-appointed commissioner, clung to power as chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, blocking a vote Friday ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson's son Jesse Jackson Jr. said, "I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson," referring to remarks former ...

Many people assume federal civil-rights scrutiny of antisemitism at Harvard is a recent, partisan development. Headlines shout about President “Trump’s War on Harvard,” “Trump’s Harvard Vendetta” and ...

Clarence B. Jones, a close adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died at 95.

March 25 (Reuters) - Kristen Clarke, who led the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under Democratic President Joe Biden, will serve as ‌the NAACP's general counsel as the largest U.S.

Kristen Clarke, the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights office under the Biden administration, has joined the NAACP as its general counsel, the civil rights organization ...

Civil rights icon and Georgia Rep. John Lewis is backing Joe Biden for president, giving the prospective Democratic nominee perhaps his biggest symbolic endorsement among the many veteran black ...