The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s victory against France at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Mexican ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...