Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev.

Nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump is taking on another high-profile case in Jacksonville, this time representing Erika McGriff, a local mother who says she was violently arrested in front of her young daughter.

Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels are now representing Erika McGriff in another case of alleged police brutality in Jacksonville.

The Supreme Court appears inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts favorable to minority voters.

As a 23-year-old voter in still-segregated 1960s Virginia, Portia Haskins was convinced she had followed all the rules in order to cast a ballot in Arlington. Election officials disagreed, saying she had failed to pay the appropriate poll tax still required in the Old Dominion,

The new layoffs at the Education Department are depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings.

Nationally known attorney takes on JSO, calling out "excessive force" in a mother's school arrest caught on video.

After layoffs, it's unclear how many people are policing civil rights violations inside the Department of Homeland Security, even as the Trump administration ramps up ICE detention.

All five men pleaded not guilty to various assault and battery charges, according to court records. The case was investigated by detectives in the department’s Civil Rights Unit, though no civil rights charges are being pursued at this time, the police department said in a statement.