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A federal lawsuit has been filed against Texas A&M University over diversity policies for employment that allegedly discriminate against white and Asian men.

Google and top colleges around the country may violate civil rights laws due to a Ph.D. fellowship program, funded by the tech giant, which excludes white and Asian males from a number of the open positions, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

America First Legal (AFL) announced on Thursday that it asked the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to launch a Civil Rights investigation into Lyft’s abortion and diversity policies “to combat discrimination against women who bear children.”

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched an investigation into the University of Southern California after a Jewish student council leader resigned in 2020 after facing harassment over her alleged “Zionism.”

Wade Henderson, interim president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, expressed his organization’s endorsement on Wednesday of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on the basis of what he described as the desirable goal of a “more racially diverse court.”

A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Parents Defending Education (PDE) against Massachusetts’s Wellesley Public Schools ended in a settlement Monday as the school district agreed to end its racial segregation policy and First Amendment violations.

On this day in 1996, Civil Rights icon Barbara Jordan died just weeks before Congress and then-President Bill Clinton were set to advance her reforms to illegal and legal immigration focused on protecting poor and working class Americans from waves of job-killing and wage-crushing mass immigration. 

A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against Denver Public Schools (DPS) after one of its elementary schools hosted a racially segregated “families of color playground night.”

The U.S. Department of Education announced Monday it is reversing its decision to stop Trump-era data collection on teacher-on-student sexual assault allegations after facing sharp public backlash.

Vice President Kamala Harris in recent days has overhauled her White House office with civil rights era art, new couches, and wall paint. 

A recent Teen Vogue op-ed claimed educators are “being silenced” as conservative policymakers seek to “prevent students from learning about racial inequality.”

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, a co-founder of critical race theory (CRT), explained the importance of “looking at history to understand our present” while calling for youth to “understand the ground upon which we stand is ground that’s soaked in blood of theft.”

Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will continue targeting governors who have fought back against school mask mandates, warning Wednesday he plans to conduct “civil rights investigations” and take possible legal action against states with bans or limitations on the mandates.

The U.S. Education Department will collect massive amounts of school civil rights data for two consecutive years, rather than in alternate years, due to expressed concerns the Chinese coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected the Biden administration’s plan to make equity a central focus of public education.

Most Americans do agree that racism is a problem. But we have never before had an administration that declared America itself to be the problem.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation has paused a highway widening project in Houston, Texas, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as legal justification.

Republicans confronted Associate Attorney General nominee Vanita Gupta in her confirmation hearing Tuesday with her radical views and record of partisan attacks, prompting Democrats to intervene after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned her.

VA Gov. Ralph Northam said in his state of the Commonwealth speech earlier this week that the death penalty needs to be abolished.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that former Vice President Joe Biden plans to strengthen “civil rights” by reversing several of President Donald Trump’s education policies.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told supporters at a drive-in rally in Tucson, Arizona, on Wednesday evening to “vote to honor the ancestors.”

Every time Kamala Harris has a little bit of power, she seems to abuse it. But the media seem uninterested in asking her about her record.

Connecticut could lose federal funding for its policy to allow biological males to compete against biological females in sports competitions.

In an editorial at Rolling Stone, Martin Luther King III expresses his joy that the “new era of athlete activism,” will help bring about his martyred father’s dreams of racial equality.

President Trump has appointed trailblazing voting rights attorney J. Christian Adams to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. 

A federal judge blocked HHS from enacting a rule designed to define sex based on biology and to protect relgious conscience.

Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris, now Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, attacked him at a primary debate from opposing busing.

Larry Elder joined Breitbart News to discuss his recent nomination to the Radio Hall of Fame, reflecting on his nearly three decades in radio.

The late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) is being remembered by President Donald Trump the way he ought to be remembered — namely, for his heroic leadership in the civil rights movement. That is how he should be remembered — not for his recent politics.

Oregon’s Justice Department is suing multiple federal agencies for civil rights abuses, and state prosecutors are looking to file criminal charges against an officer who seriously wounded a protester.

Mark McCloskey, the man who armed himself with a rifle and confronted Black Lives Matter protesters outside his home on Sunday, while his wife stood next to him with a pistol, is a lawyer who says he takes civil rights cases against police.

The Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of employment discrimination law to include sexual orientation and “gender identity” will create a wave of litigation, said Carrie Severino.

Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.

The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday that his reopening plan discriminates against religion and must be modified to allow for religious services to reopen.

The National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund has endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden, according to an article posted on the Advocate website.

Jack Phillips, the baker who was sued for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding because of his religious conscience, was back in court on Thursday, this time for turning down a request for a “gender transition” cake.

HHS enforces HIPAA to protect patients’ medical privacy but will allow first responders access to a patient’s viral history.