Iowa is the first state to repeal civil rights protections for transgender people from state code and advocates for the ...

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LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — Robert G. Clark, who was elected in 1967 as Mississippi 's first Black lawmaker of the 20th century ...

Wooten, then a veteran guard who blocked for Jim Brown, was at the White House on July 2 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964. No, Wooten wasn’t inside ...

The draft executive action, obtained by NPR, acknowledges that the department and its signature responsibilities were created ...

President Trump is expected to issue an executive action as early as today calling on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to ...

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Reynolds proposed a similar bill last year, but it didn’t make it to a vote of the full House or Senate ... included in the state’s Civil Rights Act of 1965. They were added by the Democratic ...

and the state House voted 60-36 to approve the bill later in the evening. It will take effect July 1. Senate File 418 removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act, the ...