When a toxic waste disaster unfolded in the 1970s, a White housewife became the face of the movement. Down the street, Black ...

From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – ...

Jeffrey Benson, a graduate of Sacramento State's College of Education, earned the university's President Medal.

In honor of the 35th Anniversary of the passage of the ADA, GBH has produced a plethora of multimedia content.

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

A feature film is in the works about a prominent activist known as the "mother of the disability rights movement." ...

Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 6 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Explore how an isolated community of women in ...

Dr. Margaret B. Arbuckle has been named the recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Community Service Award from the International ...

A s a young man, I witnessed the Civil Rights Movement without a complete understanding of what I was seeing. There might ...

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 ...

Some previous deployments restored peace after local crackdowns or vigilante violence, but sometimes troops intensified tensions.