Civil Rights

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Parents of transgender children in Tennessee worry they may have to move their families out of the state because of a recently passed ban on gender-affirming care for minors and policies that target transgender…

California's reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.The nine-member committee,…

California's reparations task force began voting Saturday on recommendations for how the state may compensate and apologize to Black Californians for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies.The nine-member committee,…

Carolyn Bryant Donham, the White woman whose accusation set off Emmett Till's lynching, died on Tuesday, the coroner for the Parish of Calcasieu in Louisiana confirmed to CBS News.Donham, who lived in…

A speaker presents at a university workshop. Getty Images/iStockphoto New voices are joining the national debate over academic freedom on college campuses, and that’s good for democracy. What do academic freedom and democracy have in…

US officials on Tuesday warned financial firms and others that use of artificial intelligence (AI) can heighten the risk of bias and civil rights violations and signaled they are policing marketplaces for such discrimination.Increased…

The Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin in Northeast D.C., the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. The probe comes one day after U.S. Park Police…

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers banned female Afghan employees of the United Nations from working in the country Tuesday, putting millions of vulnerable households that rely on the global body's humanitarian operations at additional…

President Joe Biden on Friday tweeted a video calling Cesar Chavez “an inspiration to millions,” including him. “Chavez instilled in our nation the principle that ‘Our ambition must be broad enough to include the needs of others, for their…

Claremont, California — Myrlie Evers-Williams says she has never lived a day of her 90 years without love. But she has undoubtedly battled hate. As the widow of the late civil rights icon Medgar Evers, together, they fought racial…