All eyes will be on the “All Roads Lead to the South” National Day of Action on Saturday (May 16), and The Root will be on ...

A prayer gathering kicks off tomorrow’s march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, honoring the renewed fight for voting rights ...

After coming of age in the Civil Rights movement, Lovelace O’Neal forged a singular path in American painting that belatedly ...

Students across the country, from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, Milwaukee, and Texas, have organized mass school walkouts to ...

Over the past 60 years, Emory University community members have publicly protested for civil rights, against the Vietnam War ...

Few things in human history are as quietly defiant as a body in motion. Long before marchers carried signs or activists ...

The environmental movement—green-minded politicians, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, writers, volunteers, and advocacy ...

Black Americans are mobilizing in Alabama for what organizers say could become one of the South’s largest voting rights demonstrations since the Civil Rights Movement. The “All Roads Lead to the South ...

In June 2019, a group of Yellow Vests, the diverse protest movement that broke out a year earlier, and their families set to ...

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

This well-known classic from Buffalo Springfield is six decades old, but its message is still relevant in today’s world. The ...