Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

In this excerpt from Joshua Clark Davis's new book Police Against The Movement, the author explains how "local law ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

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KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...

From Jesse Jackson to Angela Davis, we’re honoring the last living Civil Rights icons who are still with us today. From the lunch counter to the ballot box to Selma marches to the Black Panthers, the ...

Since its founding 150 years ago, Knoxville College has graduated accomplished students, hosted seminal speakers and served an integral role as East Tennessee’s only HBCU. The historically Black ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for ...

She was among the last of a generation of activists and lawyers who weathered the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort in the decades that followed. By Clay Risen In early October 1964, Ann ...

Exclusive: Phyllis Thompson Hyatt was one of the “City Girls” protesting against racial segregation in the 1960s in South ...