The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel will present a commemoration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy on Friday, April 4, the 57th anniversary of his death with ...

In the weeks ahead, students, advocates and elected officials must unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine.

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi, is among service members whose histories have ...

The White House says a lengthy phone call between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had achieved "movement to peace" ...

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 ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

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 ...

Her father, a dentist and former African American newspaper owner, served as a leading voice and president of the Illinois chapter of the NAACP during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. “ ...

Iowa’s Republican Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill ending civil rights protections based on gender identity, becoming the first state to repeal civil rights protections for ...