What an odd headline to read and write in the year 2013—especially when the Supreme Court ruled racial segregation to be unconstitutional in 1954, but it apparently still happens...

The Michigan Department of Civil Rights is asking the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights for a ban on the use of American Indian mascots, nicknames and logos...

There has been no Indian Voting Rights Act , and no congressional hearings or testimony on such a bill...

Plans for an expanded monument to honor Confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Selma, Alabama have raised controversy...

Embattled former professor Ward Churchill failed what may be his last chance in a five-year civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU)...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer applauded a federal judge's ruling on September 3 that the most controversial part of Arizona's immigration law can be implemented...

The United States is known for its capabilities to incorporate the views of dissenting groups into its laws and political culture...

The United States Justice Department announced May 1 that it is launching an investigation of sexual assault and sexual harassment at the University of Montana and in the greater M...

After being kicked out of school and publicly humiliated for being pregnant, 15-year-old Shantelle Hicks now has the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU New Mexico on her side...

The ousted executive secretary of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs (CCIA) is requesting federal and state civil and criminal investigations into her recent termination by ...