Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

81, living in Atlanta Civil rights activist, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders. Later, a Vietnam veteran and the author of Buses Are a Comin’ My dad was a patriotic veteran of the ...

Heading into the final stretch of the 2024 election, it seemed every cable news program had a segment dedicated to this one ...

As federal troops occupy Los Angeles, political leaders invoke civil rights history—but their comparisons conceal more than ...

Gail Etienne, Leona Tate, and Tessie Prevost's story was overshadowed for decades. Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary brings new urgency to their unfinished work.

The statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns has been approved by the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol, which is expected to be unveiled as part of the National Statuar… ...

For decades, their story remained largely untold, overshadowed by the singular narrative that emerged around Bridges. But their effort, too, laid the groundwork for global change. In September 1960, ...

LAUREN KIM HOLDS her winning artwork entry in the 2025 International ARTEFFECT Competition, “Vivid Resilience,” a woodwork artwork of civil rights activist and teacher Clara Luper. Photo courtesy of ...

Civil rights activist criticizes program aimed specifically at black women A University of Colorado at Boulder graduate program advertised for “Black women” is facing a federal civil rights ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The acting chair of the federal agency that enforces workers rights acknowledged Wednesday that transgender workers are protected under civil rights laws but defended her ...

On Juneteenth we look back at the fight for civil rights in America. Historian Peniel E. Joseph discusses his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution." He ...