SPRINGFIELD — A chance discovery in Springfield College’s archives led a local professor on a yearslong quest to write about a lesser-known chapter in the nation’s Civil Rights Movement. There, Martin ...

Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

Jocelyn Benson has been Michigan’s Secretary of State since the start of 2019. But before that, she was, as she describes, “a student of the Civil Rights movement,” moving to Montgomery, Alabama ...

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

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The Knoxville Area Urban League honored a former local NAACP president with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026.

For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...

In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys through the Civil Rights Movement and the longer Black freedom struggle that made it possible.

Civil Rights photographer Cecil Williams says South Carolina has made progress, but new debates over race and representation ...

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 ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights, the work of the Civil Rights Movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and ...