Bishop Harris died Dec. 9 after a “long battle with cancer,” said his daughter Carlotta Harrell, who’s also chair of the ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

Federal files of a south Georgia woman, instrumental in the civil rights movement, beaten by Camilla police in 1962, have ...

Through nonviolent protests and other forms of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement was a decade’s long effort to make racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and inequality illegal across ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

Huntersville plans an event on January 19, 2026, to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. featuring a mobile museum and local ...

The plan to create a trail was initially approved in 2023, with the aim to connect 13 historically Black towns and significant Civil Rights locations.

“The civil rights movement isn’t a static event in our history but the collection of decades of events, leaders and activists pushing for change.” Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...

The year 2026 also marks the 35th anniversary of the National Civil Rights Museum, founded in 1991 at the historic Lorraine ...

U.S. history is a story of contradictions. A 245-year struggle between the lofty ideals expressed in our founding documents and the harsh reality of life for millions of African Americans and other ...