A Washington bill introduced this legislative session would add new protected classes to a state law regarding ...

While the self-described “president of law and order” is dismantling accountability through pardons, Philly's local ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

Introducing class as a protected characteristic within the Equality Act would provide the legal framework required to tackle discrimination and disadvantage, says LSE’s Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, ...

The insurance industry has used race-based premiums, redlining, and other practices to discriminate against protected classes ...

a bill that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes under federal civil rights law. Where the original Civil Rights Act of 1964 furthered equality by ...

The proposal would have removed gender identity as a protected class under Iowa’s civil rights law. It would have reclassified being transgender as a disability. For the latest news, weather ...