Civil rights attorney James R. Walker Jr. is honored with a historical marker in Ahoskie, NC, reflecting his work in racial ...

In the several decades following the admission of the first Black students in the mid-1960s, the enrollment of Mary ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

When one thinks of the defining TV performances of the past 25 or so years, what comes to mind? For Variety staffers, some of ...

Civil rights icon James Weldon Johnson wrote the poem and his brother Rosamond put the words to music. The song was performed for the first time by 500 children at the Edwin Stanton School in ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote during the Mississippi Freedom Summer ...

it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order The Latest Civil ...

The vast majority of civil servants expect government spending on consultants to keep rising despite Labour’s push to rein in the billions paid to firms such as Accenture, a new survey shows.

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the nation’s civil rights struggles. Hagerstown author Ed Maliskas said ...