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 ...

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

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 Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capi ...

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.

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

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 ...