New generation. That’s the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a ...

Civil rights leaders are mobilizing against a Supreme Court ruling that undermines the Voting Rights Act, aiming to protect ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

As Alabama remains locked in a legal battle over congressional redistricting, pastors at some of Birmingham’s historic Black ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

Journalism still has the power to shape the world we live in and, perhaps more importantly, shape our understanding of this ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

Civil rights leaders rally in Alabama to oppose a Supreme Court ruling that threatens the Voting Rights Act, aiming to unite ...