While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required affirmative action by federal contractors.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.

Former President Donald Trump ... offensive, Trump has attempted to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message while implementing policies that contradict the civil rights leader’s vision.

National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal diversity and affirmative action practices "an assault on the Civil Rights Movement and everything we've achieved in the last 60 years.

Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the ...

A letter to the acting head of the division obtained by The Washington Post orders her to ensure that civil rights attorneys do not file “any new complaints, motions to interven