A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection, currently featuring a selection of our award-winning films from Stanley Nelson (Firelight), documenting pivotal moments in the 20th century civil rights ...

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War. The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights ...

The goal of the art is to evoke the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, according to Create Texas. But, Joeckel said, it doesn’t have to be a sculpture of King.

His abstract art represents the very antithesis of his ... in a troubled country teetering on the cusp of a 15-year civil war. Christians fought Muslims, and Seker fought teenage wanderlust.

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city from the 1950s to 2000, offering a vibrant immersion in France’s ...