A section of the Arlington National Cemetery website dedicated to World War 2 veteran and civil rights leader Medgar Evers ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Legal groups took action and a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from using the law for deportations.

Arlington National Cemetery has purged its website of pages about notable Black, Hispanic and women veterans, as well as ...

Advocates are seizing the moment to call for change, urging Congress not to “get back in the city management business” before ...

President Donald Trump, just 54 days into his second term, declared himself “the chief law enforcement officer in our country ...

Representatives Shomari Figures and Terri Sewell introduced legislation to protect civil rights landmarks on the National ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

“There would be no Democratic Party that we know unless the ‘60s and the Civil Rights Movement happened,” Williams said. “This is nothing to do with liberal, progressive, conservative or moderate … we ...