civil rights

A person who wanted to transition from a male to female identity has lost a lawsuit against her former employer.RG & GR Harris Funeral Home fired Aimee…

This week, violence and race have hit us in a way many of us have never seen.Violence and race, though, are not new. The Detroit Journalism Cooperative…

How do you get students to really appreciate history?One powerful way is to get those students out of the classroom and take them to historic sites,…

After 13 years, the Detroit police department is now officially free of U.S. Justice Department oversight.The department had been under two federal…

America struggles with race and those struggles are intensifying. As the white majority has been shrinking, racial tensions have been rising. You can see…

The Michigan Civil Rights Commission will investigate whether the Flint drinking water crisis has violated the civil rights of Flint residents. The…

The woman who wrote and championed Michigan’s groundbreaking Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act has died.Daisy Elliott was a state representative from…

There's a civil rights debate brewing in Michigan. It's about whether schools have too much civil rights education or too little.This controversy has…

It’s the upstarts versus the Establishment. Again.And, this time, we don’t mean the Tea Party versus the Republicans. Rather, we’re talking about the gay…

A state House committee adjourned today without voting on legislation that would add LGBT protections to Michigan’s civil rights law, and it appears the…