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

Lee, whom President Barack Obama recognized for her work during the civil rights movement, wrote "At the Foot of the Edmund ...

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 ...

Oct 3 (Reuters) - The FBI has cut ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks extremist groups, after conservatives criticized the nonprofit for including slain ...

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 ...

This is an opinion column. It doesn’t work if this doesn’t work. A vibrant, economically thriving civil rights district in Birmingham — an opportunity that’s long overdue — doesn’t happen if its ...

A prominent Cornell law professor is demanding a civil rights investigation into allegations that one of his colleagues attempted to exclude an Israeli student from a course on the Gaza Strip. Earlier ...

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 ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

From Jesse Jackson to Angela Davis, we’re honoring the last living Civil Rights icons who are still with us today. From the lunch counter to the ballot box to Selma marches to the Black Panthers, the ...

With all the natural components needed to make steel—iron ore, coal, and limestone—Birmingham experienced meteoric growth during the Industrial Age, earning it the name the Magic City. While steel ...