Ongoing efforts to overturn the 1964 Civil Rights Act — one of our country’s finest achievements — continue apace at the ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. July 2 marked the 60th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...

WASHINGTON ‒ On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a law that promised millions of Americans the power to vote, civil right lawyers and scholars warn those rights are in danger again. The ...

Conservative activist Chris Rufo, who rose to fame calling out Critical Race Theory and DEI in American institutions, argued that the best way to stop those ideologies is by reforming civil rights law ...

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that ...

The Justice Department is soliciting staff within its Civil Rights Division to take reassignments to fill vacancies in areas related to education, employment and voting, with leaders citing the “deep ...

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality Zachary Clary - Historian, Vanderbilt University Senate Majority Leader ...

An Esterbrook pen, used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James F.