WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected ...

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...

President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights ...

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 ...

The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed the economic disparity between Black and white Americans, highlighting the need for action beyond the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. His executive order on ...

“This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.” – President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union address, January 8, 1964 This past Friday marked ...

Learn about the history of Executive Order 11246 following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI programs and ...

But it was Johnson, elevated to the presidency by the ... In addition to revoking a piece of LBJ's legacy, Trump signed an order closing all DEI offices across the government and placing their ...

With President Donald Trump’s changes to the federal workforce, focusing on eliminating DEI programs, here’s a look at the ...