Civil Rights

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida High School Athletic Association is asking a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a...

The Collier County School District faces a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of three Immokalee immigrant families alleging that…

TALLAHASSEE — Individuals who are voluntarily being questioned by authorities have to be told when a lawyer is present, the Florida Supreme Court...

The U.S. Department of Education says it is launching a civil rights investigation into whether the Pinellas County School District is systematically...

As February marks Black History Month in the U.S. we’ll take a closer look at the history of the civil rights in the sunshine state from the…

The third time was not the charm Tuesday evening for advocates of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights measure. Senators remained dead...

Despite early indications the Florida Legislature was ready to move forward with civil rights protections for the lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender...

By a tie vote, a bill that would bar discrimination in jobs and housing based on sexual orientation failed to pass its first stop in the Florida…

Same sex couples can marry, but in Florida members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community lack a number of basic protections against...

WGCU recently reported on the increase of transgender youth coming out nationwide. So this week on Gulf Coast Live! we talk with advocates about past and…