This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

On January 22, 2026, at the National Urban League’s Demand Diversity Roundtable research was shared that Americans overwhelmingly support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). When asked if they ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mattie Jones and Rhonda Mathies are local icons and legends from the Civil Rights moment. They made headlines for decades in their work for equal rights. Jones and Mathies have seen ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s ...

Reverend Jesse Jackson, a towering figure in the modern Civil Rights Movement and two-time presidential candidate, has died at 84. Jackson died Tuesday, surrounded by family at his home. A cause of ...

Throughout Black history, there have been celebrities who have leveraged their fame to fight for justice. A number of entertainers and athletes have used their influence to fight inequality and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...