A group of activists and businesses on Wednesday launched a ballot initiative to protect LGBT Michigan residents under the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which currently protects people from ...

Fair and Equal Michigan wants to add LGBTQ protections to the state's Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act. Doing so by legislative initiative requires just over 340,000 valid signatures.

A federal appeals court has given a campaign calling itself the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative the green light to gather petitions -- but now the group has modified their plans. NPR's Tavis ...

Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, concluding 6-2 that a Michigan ballot initiative providing that the state ...

On Dec. 22, a ban on affirmative action, known as Proposal 2 becomes law in Michigan. Tony Cox speaks to attorney Terrence Pell, president of the Center For Individual Rights in Washington, D.C ...

The Fair and Equal Michigan initiative aims to explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the state’s legislation. An interpretation of the Michigan ...

“All worthwhile civil rights battles must start somewhere and this effort is no different,” Nessel said at the time, upon announcing the controversial ballot initiative would end. “Unfortunately, ...

Lansing — The campaign to extend Michigan's civil rights law to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation will contest state officials' finding that it failed to collect enough petition ...

He came to Michigan with his millions of dollars, and is using them to fool people into voting to end programs that work toward creating a level-playing field for women and minorities. I say he’s ...

I admire the commitment that RC Prof. Carl Cohen has for equality and individual rights. I think that this is a wonderful idea and one that we should all work towards. The problem is that the world he ...

Voting rights. Discrimination. These are some of the issues University of Michigan law students are tackling in real-world settings as part of the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative.

DETROIT -- A feisty 29-year-old white woman and a pugnacious 67-year-old black man are performing two services this autumn for Michigan and the nation. Their Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is ...