Five universities are under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for providing ...

Federal Overhaul is a multipart series that explores the impact of the Trump administration’s restructuring of the federal ...

The U.S. Department of Education investigation will determine whether the scholarships violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

While officials maintain the office is still protecting schoolchildren’s civil rights, the numbers tell a different story.

Vernon Dahmer Jr., eldest son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., has died. We talk to family, friends of the ...

The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting peoples' civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald ...

Applicants could receive as many as 10 points for writing about how their “membership in an underrepresented group” would “lend itself to …  promoting diverse voices,” the ...

The letter to Duke University leadership asks the school to create a "Merit and Civil Rights Committee” that would work with the federal government to investigate the civil rights violation ...

James Ferguson II, a Charlotte civil rights lawyer whose landmark cases desegregated schools nationwide died July 21, 2025 at ...

The University of Louisville was one of five schools under investigation, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

ASHEVILLE - Trailblazing civil rights attorney and Asheville native James "Fergie" Ferguson died the morning of July 21, his ...