Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

The administration is undertaking the most significant reset of civil rights policy in decades. Unlike its tariff programs, ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee laid out how former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ...

The same pattern appeared for optimism and imagination. Around the time of the civil rights movement, Black newspapers ...

With ‘disparate impact’ theory, the EEOC long ago departed from its mission to prevent discrimination.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. During the 1960s, our family road ...

On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finalized a rule that narrows how discrimination is penalized across federal ...

Dr. Russ Wigginton is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 60 years ago on July 2, America has experienced great strides toward attaining ...

Two men watch as some 2,000 desegregation marchers pass on their way to the Houston School District Administration building in downtown Houston on May 10, 1965. On this date 60 years ago, President ...