The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies ...

It defines segregated facilities as work areas, restaurants ... She remembers a trip to Washington, D.C., in 1985, when her father, a Jamaican immigrant, took her to Woodward & Lothrop, a department ...

"While segregation is still illegal, this change sends a CLEAR message," said civil rights attorney Ben Crump.

The current version of the clause, last updated in 2015, defines segregated facilities as work ... a department store where he had worked when he'd been a student at Howard University.

It defines segregated facilities as work areas ... worked in the stock room at a Washington, D.C., department store because Black people weren't allowed to work on the sales floor.

NPR reports that a memo issued by the administration in February omits federal guidelines that prevent contractors from receiving federal funds if they operate segregated facilities. Per the ...