Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book ...

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who challenged segregation as a teenager, is pictured years after her historic ...

Society / Q&A / The white college student supported Black voters in segregated Alabama, and began documenting the front lines ...

In the UK, the political right also claims regularly that free speech is under threat from an overbearing state, policing ...

Abigail Spanberger was sworn in as Virginia's 75th governor on Saturday. She is the first female governor of the Commonwealth. In her inaugural address, she laid out her priorities for the state.

On Jan. 17, 2026, Abigail Spanberger became the 75th governor of Virginia. Read her full inauguration speech, as written, ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leader and former St. Paul police commander Debbie Montgomery looks back — and ahead — on the fight ...

Historians say the community should join ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ on Monday in honor of the late civil rights leader, ...

Iran has witnessed many protests in the past, some of them deadly and some that even led to regime change. The 1979 uprising, ...

A New York Times bestseller, “The ABCs of Black History,” is a rhyming book that attaches a concept, person, place and more ...

Britain is in decline. We have been for decades. From 1970 to 2007, real wages went up by one third every ten years. Since then, they've flatlined. At the turn of the millennium, the average Brit was ...