While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our lifetimes.

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job applicants.

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 Opportunity Commission and more widely prohibits employment discrimination because of race, color, national origin, religion and sex.

One of President Donald Trump’s several broken campaign promises was highlighted by a question Thursday as he spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he refused to say if Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine would be over in a year.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Newark Saturday for “A Martin Luther King March of Resistance” two days ahead of Monday’s national holiday marking the birth of the slain civil rights leader and the simultaneous swearing in of President-elect Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping orders to end the government’s diversity, equity and inclusion effort mark a sea change for the country.

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement.

Massive protests are out. Democrats are taking a more methodical approach to Donald Trump’s second term in office.

President Joe Biden is spending the last full day of his presidency in South Carolina — a state that helped propel him to the White House in 2020.

Shifting positions: Trump administration officials continued to reverse or revise the government’s stance on multiple fronts, including active Supreme Court cases, Jan. 6 prosecutions, school book bans, foreign aid programs and gender definitions. Mr. Trump also reinstated a Republican anti-abortion policy known as the “Mexico City Rule.”

The Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast takes place every year to honor the civil rights leader’s legacy, and this year, it happened just as a new president was being sworn in.