Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

This commentary by Dr. Willie J. Greer Kimmons is the first of a two-part series on prominent Black men and women. This week ...

Black History Month celebrates towering figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks— rightfully so, as ...

When a major network invited me to discuss Black History Month through the lens of presidential politics, I declined. Not ...

Shutterstock Walking the Mississippi Civil Rights Trail Mississippi was one of the epicenters of the civil rights struggle in ...

Community members gathered for a screening of “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America” followed by a panel discussion as part of the MSU ...

Louisville is a shining example of how to connect disability, civil rights and equity. Combined activism can establish DEI ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

Kate Clifford Larson is a bestselling author of critically acclaimed biographies including “Bound for the Promised Land: ...

By the early '60s, both Fannie Lou Hamer and Peter, Paul & Mary were doing a version that subbed in "Let my people go" for ...