One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination ...

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Around three dozen people showed up in OKC to honor a civil rights icon and protest the Trump administration's policies.

Letitia James and Loretta Lynch, some of Trump's cardinal critics, delved into how U.S. legal systems affect Black women ...

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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 ...

New opera honors the Black women of the Civil Rights Movement “She Who Dared,” likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

Most histories about the Civil Rights Movement focus on marches and sit ins. ... By the start of the 1970s, there were about 1,000 Black women employed across all of the airlines.

Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference ... a dentist who also became a civil rights leader and the first Black elected county commissioner in Memphis.

Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion Each of these pioneering Memphis women – Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk, and Cornelia Crenshaw ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.