When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil ...

Several milestones are being celebrated this month by descendants of important Black figures from Maryland who helped shape ...

Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as protections are recast as discrimination.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A protester in Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza following the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

On Martin Luther King Jr., Day, the nation reflects on the Civil Rights Movement by invoking a familiar cast of heroes. We repeat the same names, the same photographs, the same speeches—often without ...

Dr. Blain spoke at Wayne State University as part of the university’s annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration. She joined The Metro to talk about the women who helped progress human rights, ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book Trailblazers and Torchbearers dives into the stories of female leaders ...

When I read the news of civil rights activist Claudette Colvin passing away this month, I looked at a list of other civil ...

The monitoring of federal agents by activists has been at the heart of the opposition to the Trump administration’s raids.

“The 1619 Project” is a frequent target of book bans and challenges around the country. But Nikole Hannah-Jones’ bestselling ...

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 ...