At just six years old, Bridges made history by integrating William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, facing mobs and ...

A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to ...

Great waves of cruelty pound us. Government officials use the law to attack the weak and vulnerable. Out of fear or ...

Sixty-two years ago this week, Birmingham’s children answered the call. Between May 2–10, 1963, thousands of Black youth, ...

Union leaders rally for International Workers Day, highlighting the intersection of civil rights and worker rights. A legacy of solidarity and justice.

A historic Black church in Memphis, Tennessee, that was an organizing point for Martin Luther King's last civil rights ...

King was drawn to Memphis in 1968 to support some 1,300 predominantly Black sanitation workers who went on strike to protest ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

I think my father and mother would challenge us to be a better America because we can become that. It starts with something ...

As a Black teenager growing up in Boston, Wayne Lucas vividly remembers joining about 20,000 people to hear the Rev. Martin ...