There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

The Niagara Movement | The Early Battle for Civil Rights explores the Black elite and intellectual society at the turn of the 20th century, a class rarely presented. It examines the heated debate and ...

READING, Pa. - Inside the Reading Public Museum, visitors can take a walk through history in a new temporary photo exhibition. "This is Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement," ...

The American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has been well-documented by historians. SUNY Cortland’s Evan Faulkenbury, an assistant professor in the History Department, has found a story ...

The Jefferson Educational Society continued its Global Summit Speaker series Thursday evening. Journalist and political ...

Juan Williams is giving new eyes to a project that he first started more than 30 years ago, penning a book on what he describes as the growth of a 21st century civil rights movement. “New Prize for ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Distracted by controversial political debates and foreign affairs, most Americans are unaware of the fatherlessness epidemic permeating our nation – a serious problem we have neglected at our doorstep ...

Three days after the March on Washington in August 1963, tensions flared in Enfield, North Carolina, as hundreds of Black people who had picketed most of the day faced off with police and vigilantes, ...