From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Journalism still has the power to shape the world we live in and, perhaps more importantly, shape our understanding of this ...

Permanent galleries open to the public, raising the question Dr. King left unanswered as the nation approaches the 250th ...

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning ...

Before President Gerald R. Ford and his first lady, Betty, there was another prominent Ford duo making impressions in Michigan. Emma and Joe Ford, a trailblazing Black couple, defied the odds during ...

She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar exp ...

The legacy of government surveillance directed at the civil rights movement is not confined to the past.

Last week, the Supreme Court further gutted what is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court’s ruling was terrible ...