JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Monday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement. We have ...

These foot soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement are the focus of Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom,” a richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up ...

Arkansas Board of Apportionment, the 8th Circuit became the first federal appeals court to rule that private plaintiffs cannot enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. In doing so, the court left ...

The movement’s legacy: A biblical lens. The Civil Rights Movement succeeded in addressing racial injustice, but its reliance ...

In his introduction to a summary version of the Freedom Budget, A. Philip Randolph, the great elder statesman of the civil rights movement who had inspired the 1963 March on Washington, wrote of ...

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.

Established in 2013, the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform was created to honor the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

Alabama civil rights attorney Fred Gray Sr. will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, President Joe Biden announced today. Gray, 91, built his ...

Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage young people ...

Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday that the National Park Service will potentially nominate 11 different sites from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to be added to the World … ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, is honoring three outstanding civil and human rights leaders — Dr. Clayborne Carson, activist Stacey Abrams, and ...