The Urban Civil Rights Museum, Harlem, New York City’s first museum dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement, is set ...

For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

Bull Connor, the commissioner of police in Birmingham, Alabama, had a message for the Ku Klux Klan: “By God, if you are going to do this thing, do it right.” That Sunday in May 1961, he promised the ...

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history ...

The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail is steadily growing after officials in the state unveiled a fourth marker this week honoring a historic march against anti-Black violence. The new marker, unveiled on ...

Demonstrations against police shootings and a March on Washington on Friday reflect a cause more enduring than many predicted. By John Eligon KENOSHA, Wis. — In some ways, what has unfolded on the ...

After the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in anticipation of the passing of the Voter Rights Act in 1965, the focus of the Civil Rights movement started to shift from resisting the ...

We lost civil rights icons. They lost friends. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Xernona Clayton and Andrew Young are some of the last remaining members of a generation of civil rights activists who reshaped ...

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters’ invite you to the 43rd Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert on January 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...