Women earn 75 cents for every dollar paid to men, with the wage gap widest for women of color, according to a new report.

Countering President Trump’s excesses, in fact, should not be just an African agenda. Almost the entire world is affected by his regression to insular policies such as trade protectionism, withdrawal ...

Back in the 1940s, it was almost a guaranteed path for children to surpass the living earned by their parents, with some 92% ...

Employer-sanctioned groups designed to enhance diversity and inclusion began in corporate America in the 1970s to help ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s ...

This time-lapse video map is part of a growing archive of resources under the Wake County Register of Deeds’ Racially ...

The case features an unusual alliance of the Republican-led state government, which is defending the congressional map, and civil rights groups that more often find themselves fighting the state’s ...

The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew out of the last one. The justices on Monday are taking up a challenge to ...

But the repeal of the Johnson order and the removal of the clause in the contracting document do not mean segregation is suddenly legal again in the United States. A variety of state and federal ...

Newsweek spoke to two legal experts about what this means for segregation in the United States as a whole. The policy change is in line with the Trump administration's push to remove diversity ...

When did segregation end in the United States? The civil rights movement faced strong resistance but made significant strides. The Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ...