The Rev. James D. Peters Jr. marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, and later ...

He saw violence as a tool of resistance against the oppression of Black people. Malcolm X, who was born 100 years ago, ...

In the SAM’s beautiful, sun-lit lobby, you’ll learn little-known stories about people in the Civil Rights Movement that will ...

Every month has its litany of persons born who went on to exhibit their Black excellence unashamedly, leaving their mark on society for generations to come. May is no different. On May 3, 1898, ...

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

Thurgood Marshall came to rural Hillburn, launching the effort to desegregate American schools that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

Monday, a coalition of leading civil rights groups announced they have signed onto an affirmation in defense of Black history ...

Sunday’s rally at Decatur’s dReam Center Church featured speeches from local activists and leaders, including U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams.

"The connection between Medicare, Medicaid and the Civil Rights Movement was there from the ... Statewide, 12% of Black residents under age 65 are uninsured, compared with 8.2% of white people and ...

If not challenged, activists say, they could set the Civil Rights Movement back decades ... including ones protecting white people, von Spakovsky said. But it hasn't adequately pursued those ...

Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum ...

White men abducted and killed Till, a Black 14-year-old who was visiting family in Money ... This division has been the enforcement arm of many of the laws born from the civil rights movement of the ...