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Residents of Walnut Cove, N.C., have fought for years to win justice for community members who have been harmed by coal ash pollution at the nearby Belews Creek power plant. In response to the interest in the threats posed by coal ash expressed by the North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the Walnut Cove community showed up in a big way. Read more ›

High-ranking managers at three Virginia McDonald's referred to their black employees as “too dark” and “ghetto” before firing them, a lawsuit alleges.

Today’s post was shared by US Labor Department and comes from social.dol.gov Civil Rights ActPresident Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964Earlier this month, we as a nation celebrated …

Ryan Ferguson's attorney has filed a $100 million civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the Missouri man wrongly convicted and imprisoned for nearly a decade. As you may recall, Ferguson, 29, was freed in November after spending more than eight...

Frustrated by the segregated shoreline, black residents stormed the beaches and survived brutal attacks on

The federal civil-rights investigations of the officers involved in the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown pose a significant hurdle for prosecutors, but it's not insurmountable, legal experts say.

Some prominent class action attorneys, especially those who recall Brown v. Board of Education and other significant civil rights battles from the 1960s, worry about what their colleagues spend their...

Unfortunately, very serious allegations of criminal conduct have been lodged against lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein. The most ... Criminal

Professor Adam Winkler’s latest book tracks how American businesses earned much the same civil rights as individual citizens.

The recent Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage marks a major expansion of civil rights in this country. The decision will also give some additional legal protections to gay, lesbian…

The Supreme Court ruled against Byron Allen (above) in his dispute with Comcast and weakened civil rights laws for African-Americans — including in the workplace (deadline.com) The murder by …

In their quest to wipe out extra-legal racial violence, white liberals created a system that continues to kill black people—legally. From The Nation Neither liberals nor conservatives are chomping …

A jury soon will decide whether a man’s civil rights were violated when his last hours alive were spent lying on the floor of an Oklahoma jail with a broken neck.

If your liberties were violated, you need a civil rights lawyer. Mistreatment due to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability is illegal.

A serial plaintiff and his attorney power couple are suing former Santa Clara mayor Eddie Souza over alleged violations of handicap accessibility laws.

Since the election, there has been a spike in racist harassment and hate crimes across the county directed at minorities and immigrants. As reflected in data collected by the Southern Poverty ...

Dec 18, 2014 | 3:36 PM
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided that the prohibition against employment discrimination based on sex includes gender identity. (Tony Dejak / Associated Press)
Employment discrimination based on gender identity is forbidden under the Civil Rights Act, the
U.S. Justice Department
said Thursday, announcing a change in the way it will litigate claims
The department will no longer…

It’s hard, maybe impossible, to identify an iconic moment in civil rights history that doesn’t somehow have a tie to Alabama State University.

Targeted Arrest and Prosecution at Issue in Civil Rights Case - Criminal Defense - Schwartz Law Firm