This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting ...

Faced with a choice between trying to hold on to what they have amid continuously deteriorating circumstances, as the Knights ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights. The author, inspired by the civil rights movement, volunteered in ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

On that day in 1965, civil rights marchers, led by then-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader John ... slightly changing the chorus of the movement’s theme song.

Davis gained celebrity in 1969 when the UC Regents, headed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, fired her as a UCLA philosophy ...

The trajectory of the boycott and the emerging civil rights movement would have been very different had she flinched. Claudette Colvin stepped forward again — being willing to be one of four women on ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive ...

I reflect on some of the seminal moments in recent history in which people demanded their rights. I remember the African anti-colonial movements of the 1950s, the US Civil Rights Movement of the ...