August 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Let us honor the sacrifices of the past by recommitting ourselves ...

William L. Clay Sr., Missouri’s first Black congressman and a prominent civil rights leader who died last week, was one of ...

Biographical / Historical Photographs, artifacts, a slide show, and films form the exhibition - Black women: Achievements Against the Odds - that examines the contributions of 113 American black women ...

Trump would like us to believe that he is defending the nation’s heritage, but his attempts to weaponize citizenship against ...

And while there have been times when the answer has been more restrictive, the arc of history has bent toward a more expansive view, from the Reconstruction Amendments after the Civil War to ...

By Alfred Kagan, African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign(1) ...

Lisa Ling and Paul Song, an accomplished doctor and businessman, are certainly a power couple. Here's what we know about the ...

The U.S. Justice Department office tasked with protecting peoples' civil rights has lost 368 employees since President Donald Trump took office, in a mass exodus that has coincided with a dramatic ...

The U.S. Department of Education investigation will determine whether the scholarships violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Obituary for James Fergie Ferguson, longtime civil rights attorney in Charlotte and North Carolina who died at age 82. He helped desegregate schools.