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

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 ...

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 ...

The keynote address was given by singer and civil rights icon, Bettie Mae Fikes ... Reese, Ulysses Blackmon, Amelia Boynton-Robinson, Ernest Doyle, Marie Foster, James Gildersleeve, the Rev. J.D.

We check in with actress Deborah Castrilli to talk more about stepping into the role of civil rights icon Viola Desmond in the play Controlled Damage on now at Neptune Theatre. Trudeau says U.S ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This landmark legislation outlawed segregation ...

(AP) — A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith ... the cold like they did — that’s something special.” Meredith, who resists being called a civil rights leader, now ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation and not engage in any new cases, according to The Washington Post, issuing the order Wednesday as Republican ...

“This is hard work, and work where I wish there were just, there was just more time in the day to do even more,” she said as she sat surrounded by portraits of civil rights icons including ...