Montgomery, Ala., helped shape America — from the cradle of the Confederacy to the birthplace of the civil rights movement to the city's draw today as the place to reflect on the legacy of slavery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a ...

An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination. Credit...Illustration by Vartika Sharma Supported by By Nikole Hannah-Jones Last year, a little-known office in ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Federal cuts to cultural institutions across the nation have prompted Quad-Cities organizations to strengthen their efforts to preserve civil rights history. In January 2010, ...

One of those people was my great uncle and namesake, George C. Greenidge of Roxbury, Massachusetts (b.1916–d.1997).

(AP) — Civil disobedience is by nature violating the law to bring attention to a cause. Famously, civil disobedience by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others led to landmark legislation during ...

The court is the first since at least the ’50s to reject claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities, an ...

A crowd, estimated at 5,000 inside church during a rally at Montgomery's First Baptist Church in 1956. Anti-Trump activists are deploying an array of tactics to fight back against the policies of the ...

If you drive through the heart of Atlanta, you will inevitably see his name etched onto street signs that intersect with those of other civil rights titans like John Lewis. While he may not have been ...

Donald Trump stated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt White people by causing reverse discrimination. The author argues Trump's administration has weakened civil rights protections and dismantled ...