The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...

Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march in Selma, Alabama and another ceremonial march in Little Rock, Arkansas hosted by NAACP ...

A year later, in the spring of 1965, King sent out a call to white college students from the North like me and others at Ripon College “to stand up” and come to Selma, Alabama, for a five-day march to ...

Sunday evening, dozens gathered to cross the Broadway bridge to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a historic civil rights event.

The congregation at Houston's Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church will divert their funds towards Black-owned businesses in protest ...

The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

“Clara is tenacious,” says Belinda Dixon, a longtime friend and a 1994 Staten Island Woman of Achievement. “She’s not loud, ...

There’s a cryptic sign outside the playlot in Jackson Park at 56th Street and Cornell Avenue that just reads “Dickerson Playground.” It’s referring to Earl B. Dickerson, a man who ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

Advocates are gathering in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to mark the 60th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" amid fears of a ...

Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. A new green space began to take shape at Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy in East Palo Alto on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 20. Over 170 volunteers gathered ...