From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Journalism still has the power to shape the world we live in and, perhaps more importantly, shape our understanding of this ...

Organizers, including Selma foot soliders, say ruling is latest chapter in long battle over Black disenfranchisement in US ...

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

National Civil Rights Museum Reopens the Legacy Experience on May 16, Marking Its 35th Anniversary and 49 Days Before America’s 250th Permanent galleries open to the public, raising the question Dr.

Andrea Young, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, discusses leading the nonprofit since ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning ...

Participants in Birmingham's 1963 Children's Crusade are speaking out about the U.S. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

Last week, the Supreme Court further gutted what is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court’s ruling was terrible ...