The Plainfield Performing Arts Center will host “The Black Experience: A Civil Rights Museum Showcase” from noon to 7 p.m.

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you’re interested in learning about historic places, people and ...

Lenoir’s Martin Luther King Jr. Center helped to organize and orchestrate a series of events for its namesake’s holiday, in ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement.

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium hosted a two-day event to teach and empower communities ...