The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, fire hoses and dogs were used against peaceful ...

Between the capital of Damascus and the southern Syrian city of Daraa, an early flash-point in the 14-year civil war, 25 miles of track are missing. They were stolen, allegedly by former Assad ...

A conversation about memory, movement-building and the sacred work of staying connected. In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding ...

A water fountain. A lunch counter. A seat on a public bus. Access to these things might sound simple, but the Civil Rights Movement thrust them deeply and permanently into our national fabric ...

One of the most effective and enduring institutions won by the Civil Rights Movement – the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice – is under assault. Born from Black ...

If not challenged, activists say, they could set the Civil Rights Movement back decades. “It’s been a full-frontal assault, and it's left people quaking. It’s left people shaking.

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and a haven and assembly point for social, cultural, spiritual, and political ...

On Feb. 1, 1968, two more men, Echol Cole, 36, and Robert Walker, 30, were crushed in ... efforts to rebuild this cornerstone of the civil rights movement," they wrote. Before the fire, the ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

ExploreNikema Williams steps down as chair of Georgia Democratic Party Atlanta, often referred to as the cradle of the civil rights movement, offered a meaningful launch to the tour, said Angela ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Ass ...

In this powerful episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores the deep cultural, spiritual, and political roots of Civil Rights Music—from the ...