Although this claim is as ludicrous as the claim that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the NAACP were plotting a Communist ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

Bishop Harris died Dec. 9 after a “long battle with cancer,” said his daughter Carlotta Harrell, who’s also chair of the ...

Federal files of a South Georgia woman, instrumental in the civil rights movement, beaten by Camilla police in 1962, are set ...

Veteran civil rights campaigner and activist Eamon Melaugh has died at the age of 92. Mr Melaugh was heavily involved with the civil rights movement in Londonderry and co-founded the Derry Housing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

“The civil rights movement isn’t a static event in our history but the collection of decades of events, leaders and activists pushing for change.” Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...

An old man once told me, “Son, the lighter your load, the stronger your stride.” Now I’m that old man and I’m grateful for ...

Huntersville plans an event on January 19, 2026, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featuring a mobile museum and local ...

There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...

U.S. history is a story of contradictions. A 245-year struggle between the lofty ideals expressed in our founding documents and the harsh reality of life for millions of African Americans and other ...