A small cohort of researchers will continue their work reviewing Civil Rights-era cold cases, thanks to a bipartisan bill championed in part by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff.

In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding to remember what the Civil Rights Movement was really made of — not just legal wins ...

Leaders of the battle for civil rights in New Orleans are spotlighted in 'The Trail They Blazed' at the Historic New Orleans Collection.

DOJ Shakeup May Put Civil Rights Probe of 1970 Jackson State, Mississippi, Killings At Risk The Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Act made way for investigations of racially motivated killings. The ...

While Stonewall and San Francisco are iconic in the LGBTQ rights movement, it is official Washington that birthed some of the pivotal moments in that national fight for civil rights.

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar ...

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.

Fire destroys Clayborn Temple, historic Memphis church with ties to MLK and Civil Rights Movement ...

Civil rights attorney Damon Hewitt on how Trump’s DOJ created “an invitation to discrimination” "You will have no rights that Trump and the federal government are bound to respect" ...

Pools were just as important in the Civil Rights Movement as the better-known components ...

Columbia University violated federal civil rights law through its "deliberate indifference" toward the anti-Israel protests that have taken place on campus since Oct. 7, 2023.