Jones, who helped shape King’s monumental ‘I Have A Dream’ speech, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by ...

The city of Greensboro is continuing its efforts to preserve and highlight local civil rights history through the $75K ...

Clarence B. Jones, a lawyer to the Civil Rights Movement and close adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has died ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

Explore powerful sites along Virginia’s Civil Rights Trail where student activism, peaceful protest, and landmark legal ...

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

Three new historical markers are now telling the story of Jacksonville’s role in the civil rights movement — and the national ...

For more than a century, one of Washington's best-kept secrets lay beneath the Lincoln Memorial: the Undercroft, a soaring 50 ...

A Supreme Court ruling dismantled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, sparking a new political crisis that the church and other advocacy groups are responding to. Some organizers see the ...

The fight over Black political power in the South continues to unfold across states haunted by slavery, segregation and ...

A Supreme Court ruling on Louisiana's congressional map could threaten Black voters' rights nationwide, requiring renewed ...