civil rights

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The building features giant stone letters on the top spelling out part of a speech that Obama gave in 2015 in Selma, Alabama, the cradle of the civil rights movement.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, appeared alongside Bondi representing the department.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

“On a number of issues that would primarily impact conditions in low-income communities, grassroots blacks have registered opinions that are sharply at odds with the positions taken by the civil rights cadres.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The Justice Department has also recently widened its civil rights scrutiny of the state’s medical schools beyond UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Widespread preoccupation with litigation, however, is not the only—or even the main—reason civil rights groups have shied away from challenging the new caste system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander