Trump's deployment of the National Guard to L.A. is the latest in a long history of elected officials sending troops in hopes ...

Contributing opinion columnist Sheletta Brundidge shares that her and Nekima Levy Armstrong's prominent roles in the boycott ...

Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially ...

American history and culture. On one hand, it still felt like the ‘50s in many parts of the country: crew cuts, corner diners ...

Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church in Memphis, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a landmark with ties to Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement, caught on fire early Monday morning. Officers say ...

A booking photo of American civil rights activist ... he challenged the pacifism of the mainstream civil rights movement, encouraging Black Americans to defend themselves “by any means necessary.” ...

Inside the Reading Public Museum, visitors can take a walk through history in a new temporary photo exhibition. "This is Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement," said Hannah ...

When people talk about the Civil Rights Movement, they look at the South ... Dr. Matthew Washington (Submitted Photo) A graduate of Kutztown University, Matthews received his master’s degree ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist ... in Minneapolis. (Photo by Kerem Yucel/ AFP via Getty Images) Benjamin Crump ...

(Photo courtesy of Britannica Encyclopedia ... this sweeping legislation became the bedrock of the modern Civil Rights Movement. It outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion ...