A protest took place in Derry on Saturday in response to the UK government’s decision to designate Palestine Action as a ...

Social justice advocates are creating a LGBTQ+ history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

53%25 of Americans support the affirmative-action programs that grew out of the civil rights movement; A Pew Research Poll found that nearly nine in 10 blacks say discrimination still exists ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Rashad Robinson warn that viral moments and representation aren’t enough to withstand civil rights ...

A group of voters lining up outside the polling station, a small Sugar Shack store, on May 3, 1966, in Peachtree, Ala., after the Voting Rights Act was passed the previous year. MPI/Getty Images ...

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred Backus. Fifty years after the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, majorities of blacks and whites think real progress has been made ...

In early June 1966, the U.S. civil rights movement faced an uncertain future. President Lyndon B. Johnson had signed the landmark Voting Rights Act into law just 10 months earlier, but since then ...

Martin Luther King Jr. opened the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival with these words: "Jazz speaks for life." The 1960s civil-rights movement inspired blues and jazz songs about the setbacks, hardships ...

Shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963 — 60 years ago today — civil rights organizer Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway in Jackson, Miss. He stepped out of his Oldsmobile carrying shirts ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become “radicalized.”. In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how ...

John Lewis’s fight for racial equality made him an icon in the 1960s, but the Atlanta Democratic congressman also stood at the forefront of another civil rights movement decades later.