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 ...

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 ...

A plan to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to the personal data of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees – ...

LANSING – A legislative initiative to explicitly include LGBTQ protections in Michigan’s civil rights law appears to have too few signatures and should not be certified, the Michigan Bureau of ...

Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has issued executive orders that forced businesses, schools, universities ...

Michigan's Board of Canvassers is set to decide whether a ballot initiative that seeks to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution should go before voters in November.

The passage of this initiative would end Republicans’ stranglehold on the state legislature. Not to be forgotten is Michigan Supreme Court justice Elizabeth Clement’s role in ensuring the proposal ...

The Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the NAACP Detroit Branch, called out the actions of the Trump administration ahead of ...

"Good Trouble Lives On" protests across the U.S. are set for July 17 to protest the Trump administration and to honor civil rights activist John Lewis.

A group opposing an abortion rights ballot initiative in Michigan has asked state officials to reject the proposal because of text formatting mistakes ...

The Michigan Board of Canvassers rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot.