The equivocating response to the riots by Dewey and the grand jury showed, to anyone who doubted it, the political necessity of such purges. If the civil rights movement had maintained its ties to ...

The Hough Riot, which ended in a downpour rainstorm, was part of a national pattern of civil rights riots. The neighborhood ...

Paul Robeson and the Peekskill Riots in 1949 will be remembered this week at events in Cortlandt Manor and Peekskill.

After President Biden signed a proclamation to designate the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument, civil rights leaders spoke to reporters in the White House driveway. After President ...

The French government has sent a special anti-riot police unit that’s been banned for 65 years to the French Caribbean island ...

Then came what are remembered as the Peekskill riots. Two months before ... singing a medley of songs ranging from Spanish Civil War melodies to civil rights anthems. He performed the last ...

Gov. Tim Walz faced the biggest crisis of his political career when Minnesota’s two largest cities erupted in protests and ...

An interview with Wendy Talio of the Living Artist Society, which has sponsored a pair of events remembering the 1949 ...

When We Rise, which aired its final episode in 2017, is available to stream on Hulu, where you can check out the show's one ...

It was the 1908 Springfield, Illinois, race riot that sparked the creation of the NAACP. That marked the beginning of what would become the modern civil rights movement that evolved through the ...

In the aftermath of the riots, politicians are seeking to introduce stricter curbs on civil rights, with online social media posts treated the same as criminal offences committed on the streets and ...