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

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

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required affirmative action by federal contractors.

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.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

Trump “is quickly implementing Project 2025 and is targeting all minorities,” said researcher Allison Chapman.

Former President Donald Trump ... offensive, Trump has attempted to co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message while implementing policies that contradict the civil rights leader’s vision.

For many people, Donald J. Trump being sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day is antithetical to the legacy of the civil rights icon.

National Urban League president Marc H. Morial on Wednesday called President Trump's executive order dismantling federal diversity and affirmative action practices "an assault on the Civil Rights Movement and everything we've achieved in the last 60 years.

Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing."

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by ...