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 ...

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 ...

A new permanent exhibition at Atlanta’s National Center for Civil and Human Rights is asking visitors to reconsider one of the most misunderstood periods in American history. Titled “Broken Promises: ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement, has died at age 86, her foundation ...

my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette ...

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 ...

NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) invite you to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with a tribute concert. The 43 rd Black Music and the Civil Rights ...