With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were ...

At the Equity in the 413 Summit, 40 workshops allowed people to share best practices to create workplaces and other ...

Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture ...

They both came of age in Danville in the 1960s. His father was a white publisher who took a stand on civil rights; her father was one of the city’s first Black reporters.

Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

The Commercial Appeal quoted local and national civil rights leaders. It also covered goings-on in Danville’s Black neighborhoods.

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to block transgender and nonbinary people from having ...

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their stories ...

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...