Richard Arrington Jr., the first Black mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, served as the city's mayor for 20 years and remains one ...

Chair Andrea Lucas is returning the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission back to its early civil rights movement roots.

Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as protections are recast as discrimination.

From the first Black president to the first African-American woman ever elected to the United States Congress, Black people ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

The Jefferson Educational Society continued its Global Summit Speaker series Thursday evening. Journalist and political analyst, Juan Williams, spoke at Gannon University about civil rights and the ...

America's 250th anniversary highlights historic Black destinations: Jackson, Miami, Providence, Little Rock, and Dallas ...

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The ...

New York is about to get a long-overdue addition to its cultural landscape: the Urban Civil Rights Museum, set to open in Harlem later this year. When it does, it will become the city’s first museum ...

The 19th of January marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans ...

Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ever since the Civil Rights Movement.

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...