Only ten years ago, in 2016, activist Deray McKesson was arrested for filming Black Lives Matter protests in Baton Rouge, La.

Prompted by the horrors experienced by civilians during World War II, the newly constituted United Nations decided to draft a ...

Set in 1960s Florida, this powerful documentary uncovers a hidden chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. A courageous group of Black high school students organized peaceful sit-ins at a downtown lunch ...

Jazz and blues tunes filled the Stephen E. Smith Center at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on Monday to ...

FARMVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - When Earl Hughes visits the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville, he sees himself in the exhibits. “That is my classroom,” Hughes said, pointing to a wall-sized photograph.

A civil rights museum in Atlanta expanded recently and now includes the era of reconstruction that followed the Civil War and ultimately led to segregationist Jim Crow Laws in the South. Museums ...

A civil rights museum in Atlanta expanded recently and now includes the era of reconstruction that followed the Civil War and ultimately led to segregationist Jim Crow Laws in the South. KUOW is ...

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 ...

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 ...