She taught me to be optimistic and relentless, and that fighting for civil rights is the responsibility of all of us.

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

A Department of Defense webpage describing baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s military service is now missing.

More than 50 students submit writings to annual Black History Month contest; ceremony for winners Thursday night at Antioch ...

Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi, is among service members whose histories have been scrubbed from the site.

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

Lisa Young Alston, the daughter of civil rights icon and former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young, passed away on Friday, March 14 ...

Watching Penn rescinding admissions, erasing references to diversity, and deleting inclusive language is like watching ...

A long list of political standouts came out to memorialize the late Dr. Hazel Nell Dukes, the president of the NAACP New York ...

An Ohio Muslim civil rights leader condemned the government's crackdown on anti-Israel protests, including at Ohio State University, as a new report raises concerns about a nationwide rise in anti ...

An Ohio Muslim civil rights leader condemned the government's crackdown on protests against the war in Gaza, including at Ohio State University, as a new report raises concerns about a nationwide ...