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

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 ...

Just a few feet into the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See exhibit sits an old-fashioned, black rotary ...

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

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

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a name spelling. Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the ...

Andrew Young, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. for voting rights, has strong words for the Supreme Court but tells CNN he remains undaunted in his hopes for America.

The writer Rashidah Ismaili honors a storied literary tradition by hosting Salon d’Afrique, a creative gathering for ...

Memphis native Benjamin L. Hooks left a significant legacy in local, state and national history.

But looking at the photos of these protests, something else stands out. Nurphoto / A march from 1970 for abortion rights ...

We gauge reaction in the Deep South to the Supreme Court ruling that could upend Black representation in Congress.

Jack Thornell photographer dies at 86 after four decades documenting the Civil Rights Movement Jack Thornell, the former Associated Press ...