One speaker, Frank Smith, Jr., is the founding director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Rev. H.K. Matthews can't speak with that bullhorn baritone he once possessed, but the impact of his legacy speaks louder than ...

Federal court ruling sends clear message that Alabama attorney general cannot block access to health care that is legal beyond state borders.

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 ...

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.

He swiftly threw himself into the center of the city’s civil rights fight. A prime target in that fight is the Lakeview school, under construction as part of a crash program that was started in ...

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 ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- A Latino civil rights organization filed a motion Thursday to intervene in a lawsuit brought on by the city of Huntington Beach that challenges California's ...

Diversity efforts in education — from college diversity programming to nonsanitized versions of American history — grew out of the civil rights movement and attempts to ensure that founders ...