Bob Dylan — or Bobby Dillon, according to an article — performed in Mississippi, where he sang in honor of Medgar Evers.

The diva. She’s a divine cantatrice and a villainous prima donna. The curator of Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial ...

He remained active in civil rights organizations and served on the board of his alma mater, as well as for Bennett College and the University of North Carolina. He died on January 9, 2014, at age 73.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The gay rights movement in the U.S. has come a long way in the last 60 years, illustrated by some of the landmark moments in local and national history.

Young John Lewis” uses gospel, soul and hip-hop to shape the story of a man who inspired millions throughout his Civil Rights career.

President-elect Donald Trump walks Peter N. Kirsanow, an attorney and a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, out after meeting at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse ...

Federal authorities moved Friday to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use ...

Harmeet K. Dhillon, assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights, said the Trump administration would rightfully ”focus on individual discrimination cases,” which she said are “more ...

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

Richey positioned herself as prepared to continue the Trump administration’s crusades against trans women athletes and campus antisemitism—but provided little insight into how she plans to do so with ...

Several elected officials and allies of Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), D.C.’s longtime nonvoting delegate in the House, are publicly raising questions about whether the deeply respected civil rights ...