Civil Rights Act

Nine sheriff's department detention officers sued Dallas County in 2020 for federal civil rights and Texas employment discrimination violations.

Jailer Adrian Deleon Hightower allegedly assaulted Eric Colquitt while detained in the Lew Sterrett North Tower, according to footage and court records.

Biden used his address at the LBJ Presidential Library to call for 18-year term limits and a mandatory code of ethics. He also called for a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity.

Biden’s speech at the LBJ Presidential Library is not open to the public, but will be streamed online. The event is expected to cause traffic delays and draw protesters.

Nine female detention officers working for the sheriff's department sued the office for allowing male officers to take full weekends off, but not female officers. The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that was discriminatory, reversing a lower court's dismissal of the case.

A legal expert says the legal precedent for the case is a point of interest for the Supreme Court, and could go to the high court as soon as next year.

Citing thousands of complaints received throughout the midterm cycle, voter advocacy groups want the Texas Legislature to bolster voter protection and education measures, and revisit recently passed laws that empowered partisan poll watchers.

Ever since Gov. Greg Abbott directed the state’s child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children, LGBTQ-affirming family lawyers statewide have been deluged with calls.

A major civil rights group is demanding the attorney general pause federal grants to local police until he confirms they aren't engaging in discrimination, citing more police killings of Black people.

A fourth man was involved in the 1965 attack on civil rights worker and minister James Reeb, but that man was never identified or charged in Reeb's murder, an NPR investigation revealed.

Today, March 7, marks the 50th anniversary of a bloody milestone in the Civil Rights Movement – when marchers in Selma, Alabama were attacked by police on…

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. NPR has produced an in-depth online report about the act and what it means…