Since Dobbs, the rhetoric around personhood has become much more extreme—for example, so-called abortion abolitionists ...

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

Rising to prominence at the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s ... "His father is a preacher, his mother is present in his life and it's a very comfortable upbringing.

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice for Black Americans ...

Mrs. Peabody (the mother of the Governor of Massachusetts and cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt), the St. Augustine Four and the many local Foot Soldiers of the civil rights movement," he said.

She invented the "We are everywhere" slogan, organized marches on Washington, and sued for marriage rights. Nothing is slowing her down.

This division has been the enforcement arm of many of the laws born from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s ... At 19, she was to become a widowed mother of two. The Jackson State shooting ...

DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all black women. "I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil-rights movement," Tucker said in 1997. "Dorothy Height is the queen." Oliver W. Hill Jr ...

It marks a dramatic turn for the storied division, which was created during the civil rights movement and the push to end racial segregation. For almost 70 years, it has sought to combat ...

A Legacy of Motherhood and Activism,” centered on the enduring impact of Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson—widely regarded as the mother of the civil rights movement. Sign up for our Daily eBlast ...