Black clergy in Chicago say they enthusiastically support Mayor Brandon Johnson during a press conference at the historic Quinn Chapel AME Church.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

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

Nearly five years since the police murder of Minneapolis resident George Floyd sparked fundamental changes in the way numerous U.S. police departments operated, the Justice Department has reversed ...

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice ...

The DOJ is specifically looking into the city's hiring practices. This comes after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's remarks at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn on Sunday prompted a barrage of ...

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