The Supreme Court’s latest decision prohibiting race-based redistricting has galvanized civil rights leaders to organize a ...

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

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

The legacy of government surveillance directed at the civil rights movement is not confined to the past.

On Monday, a group of city leaders met at a street corner in San Francisco to commemorate an 1886 landmark Supreme Court ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful quote, "Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend," originated ...

As Alabama remains locked in a legal battle over congressional redistricting, pastors at some of Birmingham’s historic Black ...

Before President Gerald R. Ford and his first lady, Betty, there was another prominent Ford duo making impressions 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 ...

Museum president Dr. Russ Wigginton joined the Digital Desk to talk about the reopening, new discoveries surrounding Dr. King ...

Painter, educator, and Civil Rights activist Mary Lovelace O’Neal died on May 10 at age 84 in Mérida, Mexico. Her galleries, ...