The biggest single-day mobilization of resistance since President Donald Trump returned to office is expected Saturday, June 14, with “No Kings” protests in cities across the U.S. Here’s what you need ...

During the Civil Rights movement he was arrested on charges of assault and battery and thrown in jail. His offense: Stopping a white man who was trying to stuff a live snake down his throat.

U.S. National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the third consecutive march held by the group in ...

In this photo from April 8, 1968, people gather at the Clayborn Temple in Memphis as they prepare to march in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., four days after the civil rights leader was ...

Historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis, a key location during the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike and Civil Rights Movement, was ravaged by fire on April 28.

Likewise, an announcement of Saturday’s MLK convention called it “a resistance to all efforts, including those of the Trump administration, to erase the gains of the civil rights movement and ...

King was excoriated for breaking with President Lyndon Johnson on Vietnam and thereby costing the civil rights movement White House support, ... the Moratorium joined with the New Mobilization ...

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically during the Civil Rights Movement. These just happen to be my favorite ...

Viola Liuzzo. The shooting death of Liuzzo took place on Route 80 in Lowndesboro, Alabama, as she and Leroy Moton, another civil rights worker, drove marchers back and forth from Montgomery to ...

2. Rosa Parks. Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

Across the country, in all 50 states, more than 1,200 “Hands Off!” demonstrations were planned by 150 groups, including civil rights organizations, labor unions, LBGTQ+ advocates, veterans and ...

60 years ago, on March 7th, 1965, civil rights activists led by among others, a very young John Lewis led a march across this bridge, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in an effort to kick off a Selma to ...