Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.

Over 100 California cities join July 17 protests honoring Rep. John Lewis and opposing civil rights rollbacks. Follow live ...

CHICAGO — Civil rights activist and Georgia congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using ...

On July 19, 1848, reformers convened in Seneca Falls to demand women’s rights, launching the US women’s suffrage movement.

Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...

Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.

Dailey's new book Ramping Up Rights tells the stories of disability rights movements that have been forgotten in history.

The release involves an estimated 200,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice (LFJ) program is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU ...

Discover the importance of Black museums in preserving African American history and culture, and their role in educating the ...