Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental piece of legislation that forever changed the nature of race and gender in American ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Oct 24, 2025, 01:23pm EDT Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down ...

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

Hours after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the House of Representatives on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson entered the East Room of the White House. Dressed in a black suit and ...

“Remembrance is always a form of forgetting,” writes Jacquelyn Dowd Hall in her influential exploration of the “long civil rights movement” that began not in the mid-1950s but earlier, in the “liberal ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...