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

The Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza dedication will be Nov. 1 at Robinson Avenue and Main Street, the former site of the ...

History shows us that when authoritarianism rears its head, whether it takes root depends on the labor movement’s response.

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

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

They called it Shared Chains. The episode ran on the “Blaac718” podcast, and in that dim space between sound and silence, an ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

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

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — answering mail, ...

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

The Opinion columnist David Brooks, a center-right thinker, feels as if there’s room for him in the “No Kings” movement.

A 170-year-old hotel in downtown Selma, Alabama, was set for demolition before preservationists realized the value of its ...