Bill Clay Sr., Missouri's first Black congressman and co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, dies at 94.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil rights spokesmen, worked in tandem with presidential and legislative decisio ...

A Savannah gathering commemorated the fifth anniversary of civil rights activist and former Georgia Representative John Lewis ...

In this Nov. 18, 2016, file photo, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., poses for a photograph under a quote of his that is displayed in the Civil Rights Room in the Nashville Public Library in Nashville ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Navy renamed an oiler originally named after gay rights activist and veteran Harvey Milk to honor Chief Watertender Oscar Peterson instead.

Last year, a little-known office in the U.S. Department of Labor helped Black workers at a Texas medical center recover $900,000 in back wages, and Black workers at a Caterpillar manufacturing ...

The roughly two-hour theatrical event, running through July 6, is part comedy and part history lesson but mostly a love letter to the leader in musical form, using gospel, soul and rap to shape ...

About half of U.S. states include gender identity in their civil rights code to protect against discrimination in housing and public places, such as stores or restaurants, according to the ...

When Tennessee’s ban passed in February 2023, lawyers in the department’s civil rights division lobbied to move aggressively. The attorney general, Merrick Garland, was at first skeptical.