civil rights

Alexander Acosta, Trump's Labor Nominee, Spoke Out Against Discrimination in 2011

Alexander Acosta, who is President Trump's new pick for labor secretary, once defended the civil rig...

Feb 17, 2017 03:43 PM EST

Carnival, Fathom Travel face class-action lawsuit over Cuba regulations

Carnival Corp and Fathom Travel are facing a lawsuit filed by two passengers for discrimination. The...

Apr 14, 2016 08:41 PM EDT

Recording police activities not protected under the First Amendment? Civil rights group to challenge unusual court ruling

A district court judge in Pennsylvania ruled that silently recording police activities in public is ...

Feb 28, 2016 07:14 PM EST

2 polygamous town, Utah and Arizona, sued over civil rights violation

The U.S. Department of Justice claims that a polygamous controls the Arizona-Utah border towns of Co...

Jan 21, 2016 10:25 AM EST

Kentucky to pay lawyers $1 million for same-sex marriage case

A federal judge awarded a team of Kentucky attorneys more than $1 million for their role in the land...

Jan 17, 2016 08:59 PM EST

White South Carolina policeman charged with murdering black man

A white South Carolina police officer was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday after a video ...

Apr 08, 2015 05:11 AM EDT

For police reformers, California city shows a rough road

In 2000, police in Oakland, California became a symbol of the worst of American law enforcement afte...

Dec 15, 2014 02:56 AM EST

Scandal-plagued former Washington mayor Marion Barry dies

Marion Barry, the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was jailed for smoking crack...

Nov 24, 2014 02:32 AM EST

Slain U.S. civil rights workers among Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

Three civil rights workers slain in Mississippi in 1964 will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Fr...

Nov 10, 2014 09:10 PM EST

Federal charges appear unlikely in Ferguson police shooting: Washington Post

U.S. Justice Department officials probably will not bring civil rights charges against a white Fergu...

Oct 31, 2014 11:06 PM EDT

Maine nurse fights Ebola quarantine, says will not be bullied

Saying she will not be bullied by politicians, a Maine nurse is giving the state an ultimatum: Lift ...

Oct 30, 2014 07:04 AM EDT

Missouri officer says he feared for life before shooting unarmed teen: report

A white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Missouri in August told inve...

Oct 18, 2014 06:16 PM EDT

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