A federal judge said it could take years to negotiate the release of any files related to the FBI's surveillance of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

So now we live in a time when Americans in power ignore the Constitution and curtail freedom of speech, freedom of assembly ...

The walk acts as a fundraiser for continued maintenance to the facility, and a remembrance for those who walked 10 miles to ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...

With the sounds of birds and insects accompanying a humid mid-June morning, dozens of walkers trekked to keep a piece of ...

The journey from local observance to national holiday was a lengthy one, spanning over a century-and-a-half of American ...

Activism / This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Jeanne Theoharis With protests mounting across the country ...

Carl B. Stokes reflected on his political career in Cleveland in his book, “Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography." ...

In his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights, Peniel Joseph writes how 1963 was a landmark one for the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Joseph says, the United States ...

The National Civil Rights Museum has participated in events and offered exhibitions that celebrate and support the LGBTQIA+ community. When we defend LGBTQIA+ rights, we defend the right to tell ...

Free museum admission on the federal holiday Thursday, June 19Memphis, TN, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 with ...