The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no ...

I probably wasn't paying attention that day in high-school history class when we covered post-Civil War Reconstruction. I may have been watching a work crew redo the gym roof, or passing stupid notes ...

Did you know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t supposed to include job protections for women? Title VII—the section that covers job discrimination—included race, color, religion and national ...

*Maryland Public Television (MPT) has announced the upcoming documentary, “Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect,” which is set to explore the remarkable life of Thurgood Marshall, the first ...

With years of research on black education in her arsenal, Prof. Margaret Washington, history, helped bring the PBS documentary 'Tell Them We Are Rising': The Story of Black Colleges and Universities ...

Northwest Indiana’s Civil War story plays a prominent role in the second part of a new documentary airing Thursday night on all Hoosier PBS stations. Part II of “Hoosiers: The Story of Indiana” airs ...

Today on Due South, a conversation with Ted Shaw, a law professor and director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights who once led the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued cases in front of the Supreme ...