Each winter, eighth grade students at the Gordon School take a trip to Alabama and Georgia to visit historic sites associated ...

When Quintard Taylor launched BlackPast in 2007, he didn’t realize attacks on history would make the site as necessary as it ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Hillsborough County's play "When the Righteous Triumph" portrays the 1960s civil rights sit-ins, educating a new generation.

The Chautauqua County District Attorney's Office has been appointed as a special prosecutor to review the convictions of two ...

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.

Utah is moving to protect the children of online content creators following the child abuse conviction of Ruby Franke, who ...

Republican Gov. Mike DeWine has signed legislation to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs and make other sweeping changes to public colleges and universities in Ohio The Latest The Trump ...

And one could consider the protesters’ actions through the lens of civil disobedience, recalling the 1960s civil rights movement, which also involved minor lawbreaking and was organized by nonprofits, ...