A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Many Ivy League presidents see themselves as heirs to the civil-rights movement. In fact, they are among the most active practitioners of racial discrimination, stereotyping, and segregation in ...

In January, the Palo Alto school board met to discuss requiring high schoolers to take courses covering the displacement of Native Americans and the Black Panthers’ role in the Civil Rights Movement.

Padilla said establishing the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park “would pay proper homage ...

Rep. Johnny Garrett, a Goodlettsville Republican, is a cosponsor of the legislation. The 60-year-old commission is a nonpartisan and independent agency responsible for enforcing civil rights laws ...

The Rev. Joseph W. Ellwanger, one of the few white Southern ministers who supported the civil rights movement and helped plan the Birmingham demonstrations in 1963, was honored with a historical ...

Government Cheese’s cast has explained the refreshing decision not to put the Civil Rights movement front and centre in this quirky comedy-drama about a Black family in the 1960s. Set during a ...

April 11 marks a century since the birth of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement.