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 ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...

Organizers said 10,000 people showed up at Lafitte Greenway for the rally. They pointed out not a single incident of violence ...

Jennifer A. Serafyn is a lawyer in Boston and the former chief of the Civil Rights Unit at the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. After nearly 10 years, the civil rights unit at ...

This story has been updated to reflect the grand opening of the redesigned Founders Park was Oct. 4. A compact and once essentially ignored plaza that joins Mulberry Street to Main Street in the South ...

A battle over Louisiana's congressional map led to the racially and politically charged case. Could it impact the Voting ...

Public officials, descendants of Sarah Roberts and the school community gathered Wednesday to recognize the opening of a newly merged elementary school in Roslindale, carrying the name and legacy of ...

Voting rights activists were relieved in 2023 when, in a surprise to some, the Supreme Court upheld the most important remaining element of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling forced Alabama and later ...