The U.S. Department of Justice is pausing all active litigation being done by its civil rights division. How could this freeze affect Memphis' cases?

America has waited decades for the full release of documents relating to the killings of JFK, RFK and MLK. That wait may soon be over.

Donald Trump's executive order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general, once confirmed, to ...

President Trump has ordered the declassification of all remaining records on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, ...

Martin Luther King Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks and Ralph Abernathy at Highlander Folk School in 1957. The Cumberland ridge of middle Tennessee may seem to be a far cry from the ...

These change-makers are helping to implement policies that uplift the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s mission for equality and justice. By Shannon Dawson, article courtesy of NewsOne.com The icon ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

Kyle Rittenhouse was met with hundreds of protestors when he came to speak in Memphis last year, and he's coming back in February.

Civil rights leaders this week characterized President Donald Trump's executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government as "an attack on people." ...