Charles McLeod, a founder of VCU’s first Black student organization, who is seen speaking at the 1969 Moratorium to End the ...

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson remains hospitalized and is receiving care to stabilize his blood pressure, a source ...

The Heritage Foundation, billed as the “intellectual backbone” of the conservative movement, has just lost one of the nation’s most prominent conservatives: Princeton Professor Robert P. George. His ...

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed addressed multiple topics of concern during his monthly press conference Wednesday A building ...

The 24-year-old’s death marked a seminal moment in the Twin Cities police accountability movement, spurring changes in how ...

In order to meet the dire challenges that face us, social movements are going to need new and creative strategies. We are going to need groups that are willing to escalate and take risks. And when ...

The daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried ...

Supreme Court decided not to take on a request to overturn same-sex married couples' rights, but pushback to expanded civil rights has a long tradition in the United States.

The stereotype of the welfare queen, typically a single Black mother, was employed to rationalize the pause in SNAP benefits, and it proved effective.

In this interview, Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina discusses the connection he sees between today’s politics and the ...

Just weeks after it was dedicated, someone has allegedly vandalized a monument honoring an Oklahoma City Civil Rights icon and the historic movement that she led.

In 1960, Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, and Ruby Bridges became some of the first Black students to integrate ...