When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil ...

At the 38th annual Danforth Campus Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration, audience members gathered in Graham Chapel to hear ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as "critical race theory" and other material ...

SHAPE Community Center was founded in 1969 to give people a place to join the civil rights movement. We are getting our first ...

More than 150 spectators joined community leaders and members of the Clemon family this morning for the ribbon cutting and ...

Chatham Community Library celebrates Black History Month with Reggie Harris' "Freedom Songs and the Civil Rights Movement" ...

EDWARDSVILLE - Donzaleigh Abernathy, acclaimed activist and author, goddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a ...

Social movement ecology can help groups with different organizing traditions work together to pursue change in a time of hostile government.

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is still felt years after his death, there are many activists from the Civil Rights ...

On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...