civil rights

One Iowa lawmaker hopes people don’t see the guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as the end of the fight for racial justice.

University of Iowa administrators can be held liable for monetary damages for improperly barring the Business Leaders in Christ, which rejects same sex relationships, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, in a victory for religious conservatives on college campuses. The case dates to 2017, when the organization barred a student from serving in its leadership after disclosing that he was gay and did not agree with its teachings on sexuality.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day during a pandemic means lots of virtual celebrations. And these celebrations come at a tumultuous time in U.S. history.

An email released from the Department of Human Services Monday shows a top official had knowledge of alleged controversial experiments conducted at…

A western Iowa college says it has found new internships for dozens of international students who were facing being sent home by the end of January…

Several hundred people gathered at Drake University Monday morning for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Day prayer breakfast. The annual event honors…

A Polk County judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a law that would allow organizations using public insurance dollars – like Medicaid – to…

A senior official at the Department of Human Services testified in a federal court in Des Moines Wednesday that the state agency has been working to…

A clinical psychologist said the use of solitary confinement and a physical restraint device at a state-run school for deliquent teenage boys "falls way…

An official at a state-run school for delinquent teenage boys testified in federal court Monday that the use of an isolation chamber and physical…