The NAACP sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday to stop its alleged illegal effort to cut off funding to schools ...

The Department of Education, tasked with a responsibility to protect the civil rights of all children, has instead claimed ...

Waterloo schools canceled Black-themed reading event at UNI, an example NAACP cites in new discrimination lawsuit against ...

Sherrilyn Ifill, a civil rights lawyer and the former President and the Director-Counsel Of NAACP Legal and Educational Fund, ...

A Houston superintendent said he wanted to "lynch" a mayor and CenterPoint Energy. Now, a Texas bishop and the NAACP want him ...

Currently, state educational agencies must certify compliance with new guidelines on racial considerations by April 24 or risk financial and legal penalties.

Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics are not new. At the height of the civil rights movement, segregationists harassed our ...

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the ...

NAACP President Derrick Johnson accused the White House of "effectively sanctioning" discrimination that U.S. civil rights laws were designed to prevent. "Children of color consistently attend ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...