civil rights

Just as his father did fifty years ago, Martin Luther King III will address an expected march of thousands in Detroit.This year Detroit celebrates the…

If you were looking for a quintessential solidly middle-class Michigan suburb, Royal Oak, Michigan might be it. Its 57,000 people are mainly white and…

The Reverend Al Sharpton and his National Action Network are the latest activists to jump behind the fight to Michigan’s emergency manager law.Sharpton…

The US Department of Education is now investigating the state of Michigan over alleged civil rights violations.The department’s civil rights office was…

An Arab American civil rights group says it’s hearing from a surge of people in southeast Michigan whose bank accounts were closed down without…

A new draft report finds allowing discrimination against gays and lesbians hurts Michigan’s economy. The state’s Civil Rights Commission is reviewing the…

Some students, parents, and education advocates from Detroit and Highland Park will testify at a federal hearing in Washington this week.They are part of…

Royal Oak City Commissioners unanimously approved a measure to start drafting a human rights ordinance Monday.Such an ordinance would ban discrimination…

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a class action lawsuit against Isabella County.It says the county jail violates the constitutional rights of…

Michigan’s landmark civil rights law was celebrated today as a legal milestone in a ceremony at the state Capitol that re-united the two main sponsors of…