Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

Lakeland city commissioners will likely vote May 5 on a resolution to rename Webster Park after the late Civil Rights ...

Gray has practiced law for nearly a century, winning landmark cases during the Civil Rights Movement under the representation of Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the late ...

The National Civil Rights Museum held a moving tribute to honor the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. Speakers at the event, including State ...

A bill to dissolve Tennessee’s independent civil rights watchdog agency and transfer its powers to the state’s attorney general drew heated criticism Wednesday from a Nashville Democrat ...

Residents filed a civil rights lawsuit in August challenging the city’s taking of homes in the West Baltimore neighborhood through eminent domain as unconstitutional. In a hearing in U.S ...

The Trump administration has put a freeze on over $1 billion in federal funding from Cornell University, as well as another $790 million from Northwestern University over potential civil rights ...

But the primary law enforced by the EEOC, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, merely says that once commissioners are confirmed, they "shall continue to serve until their successors are ...