A new lawsuit argues that recent layoffs undermine the office’s ability to investigate complaints of discrimination from all ...

Modern day civil rights activists are working to fight poverty and violence in the city that gave birth to the Voting Rights Act 60 years ago.

Eden Prairie students reflect on civil rights icons through art, writing, and poetry in the 2025 Words in Action Contest.

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...

Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere.

Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...

Examining Cole through the lens of his activism uncovers the nuanced ways in which he challenged the status quo and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the polished veneer of his ...

In the 1960s, during the civil rights movement, Dr. Miller-Jones organized and became the director of the Northern Student Movement in Boston, where he led the nation’s first citywide boycott of ...

is legendary in the poetry community, hailed by event organizers as "your favorite poet's favorite poet." The Wright Brothers were schoolmates, and he enjoyed a friendship with civil rights leader ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump ...

Memphis, TN, Feb. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum proudly announces its selection as a participant in the Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator Program. This ...