Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

More than 50 years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the fight for civil rights continues, as advocates and ...

Attacks on the legacy of the civil rights movement have included library purges and demands for censorship in college ...

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

Former Attorney General Eric Holder at National Action Network breakfast: "We are seeing a sustained effort to eradicate the ...

What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have to say about his country’s contentious racial landscape on this, his 97th ...

As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King ...

The white college student supported Black voters in segregated Alabama, and began documenting the front lines of the voting ...

President Donald Trump said that landmark civil rights protections ushered in during the 1960s have resulted in white people ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

History had me glued to the seat,” she said, reflecting on her arrest as a 15-year-old after refusing to yield her bus seat ...

President Trump’s comments were a blunt distillation of his administration’s racial politics, which rest on the belief that ...