GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief's office expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing” in a new report on Tuesday, saying tha…
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A new Iowa law bans local nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity after the state became the fir…
FILE - Protesters fill the Iowa state Capitol to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
FILE - Protesters fill the Iowa state Capitol to denounce a bill that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Belarusian journalist Pavel Dabravolski was convicted Monday of treason and sentenced to nine years in a maximum-secur…
ISTANBUL (AP) — Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is standing trial on Monday with more than 400 other defendants accused of widespread corruption…
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Sixty-one years after state troopers attacked Civil Rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, thousands are gat…
The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago. Saturday’s service closes a week of public commemorations that included state tributes and presidential eulogies. Members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. conducted a private ceremony honoring Jackson at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson’s family members invited activists and alumni of the organization to gather at its headquarters. After the final memorial service, the family and activists will hit the road for another commemoration. Members of Jackson’s family are expected to attend the annual commemoration of the “Bloody Sunday” civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
FILE - State troopers hit protesters with billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 7, 1965. (AP Photo/File)
As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing discrimination in America’s schools. In its place, some are pushing states to step up. In Pennsylvania and elsewhere, Democrats are proposing new state agencies to investigate schools and uphold students’ civil rights. More immediately, some are also urging existing state offices to step in when students face discrimination based on race, disability or sex at school. Pushing the work to states could create a patchwork of systems with uneven protections. But proponents say it offers a backstop for families with nowhere else to turn.