Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons ...

Jacksonville will become part of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail in 2026 as the national trail expands to include new historic sites in Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Florida.

The size of the Poor People's March on Washington is astonishing. View Entire Post › ...

On the eve of a major speech in Washington on Chicago's political and legal resistance to ICE, Johnson said he is ...

Ask most Americans to name the most powerful image of the civil rights movement, and it would probably be Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial sharing his dream of a color-blind society.

Chair Andrea Lucas is returning the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission back to its early civil rights movement roots.

The man also pleaded guilty this week to a charge of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Hezbollah.

On a March day in 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin boarded a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Under Jim Crow ...

A number of entertainers and athletes have used their influence to fight inequality and support the civil rights movements ...

The second edition of "U.S. Civil Rights Trail" is now available, offering readers an enriched journey through the history of ...

Decades ago, the owners of these papers, photographs, campaign posters and buttons likely didn't consider they were handling ...

We like to pretend that segregation was so long ago, out of sight, out of mind and it’s not, it’s systemic,” says Christopher ...