Iowa

August 20, 2021 In recognition of the 60th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the Office of Equity and Human Rights has the pleasure to welcome Freedom Rider and civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and her son, filmmaker…

PELLA - Several local residents have worked to form a new committee that will ask Iowa lawmakers to repeal part of a 2007 Democratic…

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) - The man who was fired from an Iowa truck driving school for his hair is about to file a lawsuit against the company.Damon Mitchell says he was banned from a commercial driver's license program at TMC Transportation…

DES MOINES — Sam Kooiker said he was "appalled" by the administration of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission.The Sheldon resident has good prospects of judging this as he has been a member of the commission for…

Before Iowa was even a state, the territory's Supreme Court declared that no man within its borders would be "reduced to slavery."Ralph, a former slave who had been working in a Dubuque lead mine, could not be sent back to his previous…

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The Iowa Supreme Court sided with Davenport City and former Mayor Frank J. Klipsch on Friday to remove a former member of the Davenport Civil Rights Commission.The membership dispute began in late 2018 when…

The next episode of the Iowa Civil Rights History podcast is out.It's the first in a two-part series starring Jeff Brinkley, the Mason City Police Chief.Brinkley will discuss the lessons learned and possible solutions regarding the role of…

IOWA CITY - A man arrested by Iowa City police on a case convicted by a federal judge as "Walking While Black" has filed a civil rights…

Civil lawsuit filed against Iowa City and Johnson County for the 2019 arrest of KGAN TV