WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, there’s a suspended iron tomb labeled “Clarke County, Mississippi.” On this tomb, sandwiched between eight others, is the name Alma House. Alma, an ...

Lanny Smith talks about bringing figures of the civil rights movement to New York Fashion Week. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Essence Ventures at NASDAQ) After ...

The Jackson Home, where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches to call for Black voting rights in the early 60s in Selma, Ala., is shown being reconstructed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, ...

Man of the West -- Supreme Commander -- "Loyalty comes first" -- Eyes on the White House -- "To my mind, he is a statesman" -- A list of 205 communists -- "This is a day that will live in glory" -- ...

Atlanta — A popular historical museum in Georgia is expanding at a critical moment in the debate over how the story of the United States is told. Critics of the Trump administration say it is using ...

Just 40 countries representing 3.5 percent of the world’s population respect all civil liberties, a new study has found, warning that “democracy and human rights are under attack worldwide in a way we ...

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ATLANTA (AP) — A popular museum in Atlanta is expanding at a critical moment in the United States. And unlike the Smithsonian Institution, the privately funded National Center for Civil and Human ...