Nearly five years since the police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd sparked fundamental changes in the way ...

Many of the participants in recent Chicagoland protests against the Trump administration’s policies are senior citizens.

Current and former officials say the current effort amounts to the dismantling of the civil rights division and its ...

The 50501 movement could build a national protest strategy in Chicago by pushing for legal safeguards against the rising ...

The Department of Justice is investigating progressive Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ... race” in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964. It cited remarks Johnson made ...

The Department of Justice said Monday it would launch an investigation into the City of Chicago over its hiring ... in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. They cited Mayor Brandon Johnson ...

The Justice Department on Monday launched a civil rights investigation into whether Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration engaged in racial discrimination by prioritizing ...

John Fulton and Anthony Mitchell sued the Chicago Police Department and the county in 2020 alleging they were railroaded as teenagers and falsely confessed in 2003 to the murder and burning of ...

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights ...