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President Donald Trump on Thursday suspended security clearances for Perkins Coie and ordered investigations of at least 15 law firms over diversity programs.

There are currently more than 30 bills across the U.S. targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at public colleges.

14K likes, 1,072 comments - 7thgenpodcast on March 5, 2025: "SHARE & REPOST. Emily Pike was just 14 years old—an Apache girl living in Mesa, AZ—found dismembered on Valentine’s Day and identified on Feb. 27. Her tragic story is part of the MMIW crisis, a brutal reality rooted in centuries of dehumanization of Native women. Please watch, share, and stand with us in demanding justice for Emily and all Indigenous women and girls. #mmiw #indigenous #native #mmiwg2s #arizona #apache #AZ".

Everything you need to know about International Women's Day celebrations on March 8 every year.

International Women's Day is a global event that happens every year on 8 March to celebrate the achievements of women and to call for gender equality. Find out more here.

Providing legal information and online support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault -- Because knowledge is power.

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Hundreds of people showed up Tuesday night for a walk in Mesa to remember the life of a 14-year-old girl from the San Carlos Apache Tribe who was found dead in mid-February.

Proponents point to historic highs in book ban attempts, largely targeting people of color, women and LGBTQ+ communities. Opponents argue it should be up to the parents.

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The Prejudicial Materials Working Group (PMWG) of the RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group (CVEG) was convened in the summer of 2020 to review, revise, and generate new terminology in the RBMS Controlled Vocabulary for Rare Materials Cataloging (RBMS CVRMC) that would be useful for indexing works that are prejudicial in nature, or that are the byproduct of prejudicial and hateful systems and ideologies. This work included review and revision of scope notes and relationships between terms.

The ruling marks a victory for abortion rights months after a ballot measure added protections to the state constitution

As ABC15 honors Black History Month, we are taking you inside the African American Museum of Southern Arizona, located on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson.

What has—and hasn’t—changed in the legal landscape.

In 1987, Women’s History Month was formally recognized by presidential proclamation as a monthlong celebration to honor women’s contributions, accomplishments, and voices throughout U.S. history. The following books spotlight extraordinary women from the distant and not-so-distant past—women both imagined and real, both famous and little-known, coming from diverse cultures, countries, and continents.

Policies in academic libraries, whether formal or informal, external or internal, carry high levels of importance for the functioning of the library. …

Institutions across the U.S. returned more than 10,300 Native American ancestors to tribes in 2024, making it the third-biggest year for repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning...

The White House has ordered thousands of government web pages to be taken down over the past month, leaving virtually no trace of some federal agencies’ policies regarding critical topics such as sexual orientation, January 6 cases and discrimination.

The Wayback Machine is helping preserve the record of government websites before they were changed by the Trump administration. CBS News Confirmed's Rhona Tarrant reports.

On the test case that provoked the courts to decide whether the federal government had jurisdiction to exercise American criminal law over Native peoples on Native lands.

The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools.

The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, Febru...