Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches ...

Discover the significance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as it turns 60. Learn about the ongoing fight for voter rights and ...

One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic advancement in response to ...

Native Vote. Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. On this 60th ...

Vernon Dahmer Jr., eldest son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., has died. We talk to family, friends of the ...

Sala Udin was an activist, an agitator and an American icon. A documentary on his life and work will be screened at Vinegar ...

Trump is gutting civil rights enforcement — and blocking a key tool against discrimination - Right-wing activist Harmeet Dhillon leads the storied Civil Rights Division while Trump orders ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro captured the moment in an image of King linking arms with fellow civil rights activists John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

Dale Gibbs awoke to banging on the door of her parents’ home in Ripley, Mississippi, in the early hours of May 15, 1970, just three days before her 19th birthday. Her husband, Phillip, a 21-year-old ...

Not every state includes gender identity in their civil rights code, but Iowa was the first to remove nondiscrimination protections based on gender identity, according to the Movement Advancement ...