The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Later laws added more protections.

The Trump administration has found Harvard to be in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act.

President Donald Trump signaled the feud could be coming to an end, saying, “It is very possible that a deal will be ...

America First Legal filed an EEOC complaint against Dodgers and Guggenheim Partners claiming their diversity initiatives constitute unlawful discrimination based on race, color, and sex.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Monday that Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of ...

Civil Rights Act of 1964 July 2, 1964. Document Number: PL 88-352. 88th Congress, H. R. 7152. An Act. To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts ...

The act had the longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history, and after a bloody, long civil rights struggle, the Senate passed the act 73-27 in July 1964. It became law less than a year after ...

Trump has dismantled over 60 years worth of civil rights progress over the course of two months, says Pulitzer-Prize winning ...

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson called it a way for America to honor its promise of liberty. But 60 years on, how well has it lived up to ...

It was apropos that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind Lyndon Johnson as the president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After all, King and his disciples sacrificed blood, sweat and ...

Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a new opinion issued Thursday that the Court should "reexamine" a ...