Organizers, including Selma foot soliders, say ruling is latest chapter in long battle over Black disenfranchisement in US ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

There is an important distinction between then and now. Then, surveillance was constrained by practical limits. It required ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

Participants in Birmingham's 1963 Children's Crusade are speaking out about the U.S. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the ...

Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James ...

Historically, the Voting Rights Act wasn’t passed long ago — and its erosion now threatens hard-won racial progress.

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct a name spelling. Moments before he was fatally shot, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called out to jazz saxophonist Ben Branch from the balcony of the ...