Mel Gibson Controversy Highlights a Bigger Scandal: Many Americans Lose Their Gun Rights for No Good Reason
Elizabeth Oyer, a former public defender who was appointed as the Justice Department's pardon attorney in April 2022, says ...
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‘Backbone of the American Dream’: How Rosenwald Schools shaped the civil rights movement
Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...
Alabama Democrats fight to keep civil rights landmarks from being sold without congressional approval
The two democratic lawmakers promised to file the legislation last week after President Donald Trump’s administration put a historic Alabama civil rights landmark up for sale. On March 4, the ...
How chaos at the Education Department affects Illinois schools
Trump is moving to cut the staff by half and dismantle the department. He’s also going after DEI in higher education and ...
Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, ...
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Education Department lays off 1,300 employees as Trump vows to wind the agency down
At least 50 staffers are impacted in Chicago, including the entire Office of Civil Rights. The layoffs are part of a dramatic ...
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Linda Stamato: In the Crosshairs – The Nation’s Civil Service
OPINION While President Trump’s efforts to force out tens of thousands of civilian federal workers and to dismantle entire ...
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Mass layoffs at the Department of Education weaken its civil rights mission
The U.S. Department of Education has weakened one of its core duties, abolishing more than half of the offices that investigate civil rights issues raised by students and families, ProPublica reported ...
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Syria’s Surge in Violence Does Not Signal a New Civil War—for Now
A spate of attacks involving loyalists of former ruler President Bashar al-Assad has spurred concerns of a return to ...
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University of Michigan must ‘protect Jewish students on campus,’ federal agency warns
The University of Michigan is among the 60 higher education institutions set to receive a letter warning them of potential ...
Education Department to cut roughly half its staff
Around 3,000 people work in the department's Washington headquarters, and about 1,000 are in 10 regional offices across the ...
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UMass responds to DOE letter over allegations of antisemitism
UMass has three open OCR investigations open, according to a DOE database. One, alleging anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab ...