From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning ...

There is an important distinction between then and now. Then, surveillance was constrained by practical limits. It required ...

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James ...

Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the ...

Tennessee Republican leaders are defending the state’s newly approved congressional map as fair and constitutional, while ...

Participants in Birmingham's 1963 Children's Crusade are speaking out about the U.S. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the ...

Last week, the Supreme Court further gutted what is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court’s ruling was terrible ...

A new show at the Menil shows what a great colorist Cy Twombly was. Another puts the unsung young heroes of the Civil Rights ...