By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

Officials believe that all 67 people aboard an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter were killed when the two ...

Current and former Virginia leaders are recalling the first Black mayor of Richmond for his trailblazing career and lifetime ...

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict the fight for civil rights.

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Civil rights activists have gathered outside Target's Minneapolis headquarters to call for a boycott of the retailing giant ...

Leaders of far-right militia groups and other US Capitol rioters who were convicted of violently assaulting police were freed ...

Several people online paid tribute to Kiah Duggins, a 30-year-old civil rights attorney and former Miss Kansas contestant who ...