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

When Rev. Leroy Haynes Jr. stepped up to the pulpit at Emmanuel Church in Portland this weekend, it wasn’t to give a sermon ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev.

Young ran for Congress, winning in 1972 before being appointed as ambassador to the United Nations by President Jimmy Carter.

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

The Justice Department is investigating whether leaders in the Black Lives Matter movement defrauded donors who contributed ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to gut a key tool of the Voting Rights Act that's helped root out racial discrimination in ...

Dia de los Muertos events honoring the dead have a long history, but in Arizona they are tied to the more recent Chicano ...

In 1862, jewelry engraver and amateur photographer William H. Mumler was developing a self-portrait in his Boston studio when a ghostly image began to surface. Just below his own image in the photo ...

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 ...

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