Exploring the incredible legacy left by the defiant performer and songwriter Nina Simone, particularly her 1966 song 'Four Women', which typified the era.

Another agency initiated a review of scholarship programs for minority students at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. And the nation’s top workplace regulator has asked 20 major law ...

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after ...

Learn about the pioneering newspaper that broke ground for Black Canadians and its rich historical significance.

The 24-day march from March 12 to April 5, 1930, ended with the defiance of the law after he made salt at Dandi marking the inauguration of the civil disobedience movement. Story continues below this ...

Davis gained celebrity in 1969 when the UC Regents, headed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, fired her as a UCLA philosophy ...

UConn’s Humanities Institute (UCHI) held a Fellow’s Talk in Homer Babbidge Library on Wednesday, March 12. The talk was titled “The Fire This Time: Ronald L. Fair’s ‘Many Thousand Gone,’ a Forgotten ...

DAVIS, CA – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has placed UC Davis under federal investigation for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, citing concerns ...

“There are a lot of things that are happening at the federal level and also at the state level that should be concerning to the city of Birmingham given its connection to the Civil Rights ...

People don't choose to be born; they're just born into this world, and they deserve all the rights that every human deserves." Los Angeles' day of protest was part of a much larger movement across ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

An Alabama officer accosts an unconscious woman as mounted police officers attack civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, who were attempting to begin a 50-mile march to Montgomery to protest race ...