It is sometimes a gift and sometimes a curse that we are capable of reading history as having a plot. When it comes to the civil rights movement, competing plots have shaped — and sometimes harmfully ...

When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work tamping ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as president of the United States inside the Capitol’s rotunda, he will do so facing a bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the ...

The Orangeburg Massacre is deemed first of its kind on an American campus. More than five decades ago, three young Black men were shot and killed by South Carolina state highway patrolmen amid a ...

Florence Mars was born on New Year’s Day, 1923, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a remote patch in the center of the state, where red clay makes it difficult to farm row crops. The Mars family dealt in ...

Within 24 hours of becoming president, Donald Trump released his first White House Fact Sheet, “Ending the Radical and Illegal DEI.” He signed an Executive Order claiming that eliminating programs ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — As part of an effort to document the Civil Rights Movement in the American South, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries will preserve and publicly share over 150 ...

The United States used to set the standard for press freedom. Now, it’s dropped its status as a worldwide leader, according to Reporters Without Borders. President Donald Trump has spearheaded a ...

American Girl describes Melody as growing up in Detroit in the mid-1960s. — -- The newest member of the American Girl doll family is a 9-year-old growing up in Detroit during the civil rights ...

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