While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.

National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal diversity and affirmative action practices "an assault on the Civil Rights Movement and everything we've achieved in the last 60 years.

We’ve lost an election, but we’ve not lost our minds,” Al Sharpton tells theGrio. The King family also weighed in

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.

The United States will recognize only two sexes, male and female, that are unchangeable, President Donald Trump ordered on Monday as he moved to quickly end a range of policies aimed at promoting racial equity and protecting rights for LGBTQ+ people.

Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the country has progressed since.

Massive protests are out. Democrats are taking a more methodical approach to Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Sunday celebrated his return to the nation’s capital with a rally, reveling in his electoral victory in November even as he exaggerated the margin of his win on the eve of his inauguration. He also repeated a number of campaign talking points.