Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers with César Chávez, improving the lives of the country's mostly Latino farmworkers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

An Esterbrook pen, used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James F.

The historic Robinson Renaissance building in downtown Oklahoma City is being converted into multi-housing units while ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Civil rights activists failed to expel an all-white, segregationist delegation. But their efforts foreshadowed later milestones in the fight for equality Samuel G. Freedman | Author, Into the Bright ...

Preface : A dream diluted and distorted -- THE HISTORIES WE GET. Introduction : The political uses and misuses of civil rights history and memorialization in the present -- THE HISTORIES WE NEED. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo's Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior ...

On January 22, 2026, at the National Urban League’s Demand Diversity Roundtable research was shared that Americans overwhelmingly support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). When asked if they ...