Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Liberty Theater was built in 1921 and is located in the heart of downtown Amarillo. The theater spent years as the only ...

Red cards that educate adults about their rights and best practices are being distributed widely.

She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

The state forged several firsts in racial equality and equal justice, but state laws now target all things diverse, writes .

John Lewis was born to sharecroppers in Troy, Alabama, in 1940. He would listen to the broadcasts of Martin Luther King Jr.

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.

More than a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel sparked U.S. campus protests, New York lawmakers propose a ...

President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act—an immigration enforcement law named for a 22-year-old college student who was murdered last February—into law on Wednesday, making it the ...

The EEOC was created by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a bipartisan five-member panel to protect workers from discrimination on the basis of race, gender, disability and other protected ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change. The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by ...

Nick Mordowanec is a Newsweek investigative reporter based in Michigan. His focus includes U.S. and international politics and policies, immigration, crime and social issues. Other reporting has ...