Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Rosa Parks delivers remarks in front of the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the 54 mile march from Selma to ...

SACRAMENTO — Jake Rowe and James Eslick did what lots of couples do when they decide to get married: They gave themselves a year to plan the wedding. The Sacramento men knew their right to marry, ...

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its leaders, while preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Its inspiring ...

Say I'm at a dinner party and receive the typical New York question: "What do you do?" If I say, "I'm a lawyer," I'll receive knowing responses, because everyone knows (or thinks they know) what a ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

As I woke on the day after Donald Trump's election back to the White House, I realized a painful truth—The country I love doesn't love me back. I sought a vision of a better country that cares for all ...

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 ...