Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage. By Amy Qin Amy Qin writes about ...

American schools have spent decades operating under a civil-rights principle that discrimination does not always arrive with somebody openly admitting discriminatory intent. Numbers could matter too.

I am a lifelong Democrat and civil rights advocate. Both Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel years ago warned about being silent in the face of the rise of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Slightly less than half of U.S. adults believe that Black people face "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of discrimination in the United States, according to a poll. That's a decline ...

Asian, Arab and Latino Americans may face more discrimination when seeking jobs that emphasize stereotypically American characteristics because they are deemed to be culturally foreign, according to ...

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights once resolved issues before they became yearslong investigations. Michael Pillera of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights explained that a single ...

Introduction: Bifurcated justice in the Deep South -- Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the new segregation -- Missed opportunities on the road to the Supreme Court -- Black murders are different -- All ...

Racial discrimination is an underlying driver of health disparities that affects experiences across many aspects of everyday life as well as in health care settings. Repeated and ongoing exposure to ...

I am a lifelong Democrat and civil rights advocate. Both Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel years ago warned about being silent in the face of the rise of ...