When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...

Jewish Voice for Peace says the order follows the Heritage Foundation’s broader plan to dismantle US civil society.

On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, ...

Alabama educators and advocates want a preliminary injunction against a state law that limits specific classroom discussions ...

The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...