When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was an immigration attorney, she would tell clients in detention to look for the hummingbird logo. The hummingbird floated on the tablets of case managers working for the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The acting chair of the federal agency that enforces workers rights acknowledged Wednesday that transgender workers are protected under civil rights laws but defended her ...

Legal groups sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Tuesday, claiming it is unlawfully refusing to enforce federal workplace protections for transgender workers. Led by Acting Chair ...

A former Klansman who was sentenced in 2005 to 60 years in prison for his role in the 1964 plot to abduct and kill three young civil rights workers during the Freedom Summer drive to register black ...

Three Civil Rights Commission employees dismissed after email misconduct. Aug. 24, 2011— -- Three employees of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission were fired after their boss discovered thousands of ...

Civil rights attorneys speak out against threats to fair housing and the American people. About 750,000 people are on unpaid leave as the U.S. government shutdown continues — but some of the most ...

News of the Charlottesville killing of an anti-racism demonstrator woke me from a long hibernation. I’d have preferred to have remained undisturbed. The death of Heather Heyer made me think back to ...

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump... When Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock was advising immigration ...

FILE - Andrea Lucas, nominee to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, June 18, 2025, on ...