Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

A century ago this year, on Aug. 25, 1925, 500 Pullman Co. railroad porters secretly gathered in New York City’s Harlem for a ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

The beloved children’s classic and Newbery Honor award-winner, ‘The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963’ by Christopher Paul ...

Thousands of people took to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to take in history and reflect on the past.

When the annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., rolls around, I frequently find my mind wandering to the Mississippi heroes of the Civil Rights Movement. One of those people is Ruleville’s own ...

The letter sent to school districts suggests a willingness by the groups to take legal action to stop Texas schools from ...