A social worker, she became a Democratic Party insider and joined President Bill Clinton’s cabinet during his second term.

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

“The Art of Elizabeth Catlett from the Collection of Samella Lewis,” will continue through June 15 at the Mattatuck Museum, ...

Civil rights groups, labor organizations and politicians praised Alexis Herman as a "trailblazer" who fought for the rights ...

Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

We fact-check a report that the Trump administration ordered pieces of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro to be ...

The current crisis builds on decades of neoliberal plunder and economic austerity authored by both conservative and liberal ...

Confederate Heritage Month hides a rich history of poets, preachers, immigrants, soldiers, and heroes who struggled for ...

Significant numbers in the Black community feel betrayed by our so-called allies who ignored the warnings of Black people ...

The Rev. Hodges was known for his community activism and spearheaded an effort to create a monument to abolitionist Harriet ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...