While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Burroughs, the daughter of former slaves, established her own school in Washington, D.C. in 1909, helping to forge new career ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

On Wednesday, protests erupted across the United States in response to President Donald Trump's recent actions.

His Record on Civil Rights Is Complicated ATLANTA (AP) — Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As they came to ...

Understanding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is widely considered one of the greatest achievements of the civil rights movement. This historic federal legislation ...

The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, ...

As part of Trump's onslaught on longstanding federal policies, his action affecting government contracting cancels an order signed by LBJ that was integral to the civil rights movement of the 1960s ...

Ales Bialiatski, a human rights advocate who won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Belarus and is one of hundreds of its political prisoners ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk attempt to systematically dismantle the United States government, agency by agency, they are working to eliminate vast numbers of employees, removing public ...