Maryland officials gathered to pay tribute to Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, celebrating his legacy as a civil rights pioneer and trailblazer in American politics. Musk jokes about reconsidering ...

University of Tennessee awards civil rights advocate Rita Geier with ... Rita Geier − an equal rights icon, a force for social change and an instrumental campus worker − has led a historic ...

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump discusses the DEI ban and its impact on the Black community. But first, celebrating the life of Dr. Hazel Dukes, the civil rights trailblazer who fought for ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

UPDATE: Pentagon restores Jackie Robinson page, calls removal amid DEI purge a mistake A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military ...

During the era when civil rights came to the forefront of America, her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things.

Now, with retirement on the horizon, the civil rights icon is looking back on the difference he has made. Before his love of preaching helped him become the senior pastor at Phoenix's oldest black ...

For famed civil rights activist Willa Cofield, the incident that Saturday evening stood out as an example of the racism that permeated the lives of Enfield’s Black citizens and motivated her to ...

If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice ...

Bridges also discusses the desegregation of public education. Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges discusses her new book and diversity in education. ABC News sat down with Bridges, who made history ...

Ruby Bridges, who in November 1960 became the first Black student to integrate at her all-white New Orleans public elementary school when she was only six years old, joins TODAY to share her new ...