African Americans and Labor” featured keynote speaker Courtney Joiner, who highlighted members of the civil rights movement ...

Feb. 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America ...

These proposals are not about fiscal responsibility. They are about dismantling economic security and civil rights ...

Sixty-five years ago, a group of courageous young African American students in Tampa embarked on a journey that would forever change the city. Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch ...

In response to a blizzard of executive orders from President Donald Trump, the Public Broadcasting Service recently erased a ...

The videos, made in partnership with NYC public schools, profiled key historical figures like Audre Lorde and Bayard Rustin.

Andrew Young is a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a two-term mayor of Atlanta. The nation last saw him as he delivered a heartfelt ...

"The Exchange in White America" tells the story of high school students who swapped lives. Black students from Rufus King High School and white students from Kaukauna High School traded places in 1966 ...

Feb. 21, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...