As federal troops occupy Los Angeles, political leaders invoke civil rights history—but their comparisons conceal more than ...

Photo: Getty Images Getty Archive In her youth, Hamer had already made notable contributions to the Civil Rights Movement but by her 50s, she was working every tool she had to help Black people in ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist ... (Photo by Kerem Yucel/ AFP via Getty Images) Benjamin Crump hails from ...

(Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) Born Malcolm Little in ... he challenged the pacifism of the mainstream civil rights movement, encouraging Black Americans to defend themselves ...

As I woke on the day after Donald Trump's election back to the White House, I realized a painful truth—The country I love doesn't love me back. I sought a vision of a better country that cares ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice ... (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) In recent weeks, the department has said it would pursue ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

Gates / Frederic Lewis / Archive Photos / Getty Images Unveiled to the world in ... Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace ...

separate entrances and a hundred other inequalities and injustices that germinated the civil rights movement. Residents of Montgomery, Alabama, walk to work during the 381-day bus boycott that began ...

Virtual attendees will see images from the Civil Rights Trail ... to partner on the 60th celebration. Reed also said Civil Rights Movement activists dealt with more adversity than modern ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist ... but Feiler has also published a book with over 100 additional images. For its introduction, he sought out former U.S. Rep.

Dr. Fahamu Pecou, an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, painted For Yesterday, For Tomorrow for our June 2024 cover. He wrote on his Instagram about the painting: “The cover art is a tribute ...