The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change across the world, were ...

Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...

Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away in 2021 at age 90. His daughter, Adrienne Douglas Vaulx, said he died in a nursing home in Charlotte, North Carolina ...

President Donald Trump's efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have ...

EXCLUSIVE: Over the course of his long career, photojournalist Steve Schapiro captured extraordinary images of some of the world’s most noteworthy people: Barbra Streisand, Muhammad Ali, David Bowie, ...

Black South Carolinians voted in 1948 for the first time since Reconstruction. This successful crusade, like many others, helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 Credit - North Carolina Central ...

In March of 2025 I experienced my life coming full circle when my wife Rondia and I traveled to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, for the combined 60-year anniversary celebration of the 1965 SCOPE ...

1959-1960 – Organizes student sit-in demonstrations in the Nashville area. May 1961 – Volunteers as a Freedom Rider, challenging bus and rail segregation laws. 1963-1966 – Chairman of the Student ...