For their exemplary work as advocates in and outside of their communities, nine extraordinary individuals and organizations ...

President Donald Trump said his administration would proceed with his executive order denying citizenship to children of ...

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., left, and Tuskegee attorney Fred Gray break into laughter at a joke told by a speaker at a political rally in Tuskegee, Alabama, April 29, 1966.

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing ...

Civil rights leader Fred Gray called for a second civil rights movement to address ongoing injustices faced by Black Americans. He urged continued action, echoing the late Congressman John Lewis ...

In his 2012 book "The Fight for Freedom — A Memoir of My Years in the Civil Rights Movement," Reynolds talks about hearing King and Ralph Abernathy make speeches over the radio during the ...

Cole, who died in 1965 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, was a member of his local NAACP branch. He also performed at benefit concerts for the organization, raising money to support ...

Though some think that the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950, two Supreme Court decisions mark two important dates within it. The 1896 ruling of Plessy v Ferguson permitted “separate but ...

After his work with Dr. King and being a pioneer of the Civil Rights movement, Young entered the world of politics. In 1972, he became the first Black Congressman from Georgia since reconstruction.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...

Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, who are tackling systemic racism.

Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing) by Dana R. Fisher and Hajar Yazdiha, opinion contributors - 01/06/25 8:00 AM ET ...