At 93, the former U.N. ambassador and civil rights icon looks back on the unglamorous but essential labor that helped ...

The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our ...

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) wasn’t just another chapter in American history — it was a fight for dignity, equality, ...

Intersex people have always existed. How they first started to find each other, build community and forge a movement against medical erasure is a story that’s mostly gone untold. A new book aims to ...

Emmett Till's glass-topped coffin at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture stands as a reminder of his mother's courage and the fight to preserve his story.

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Over a hundred passionate and concerned voters gathered at Lynchburg's Miller Park to march in protest against what they call an attack on civil and human rights from the Trump ...

While it's not finished yet, a bronze sculpture brings history to life by honoring the sit-in movement in Oklahoma.

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Coretta Scott King died in 2006 at the age of 78 from complications with ovarian cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer for women. Coretta Scott King was more than the wife and widow of Martin ...