DAVENPORT — “March to Remember,” a silent march commemorating the Civil Rights movement and St. Ambrose College’s (now university) role in it kicked off the university’s weeklong 2025 Civil Rights ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

The new Pauli Murray Center in Durham, North Carolina, preserves the legacy of a gender-nonconforming giant of the civil ...

Kelton Edmonds doesn’t just know the history of the “Greensboro Four,” the group of Black freshman students at North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College, who staged the first ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

The Freedom Front Plus party, which defends the rights of South Africa's White minority, vowed to challenge the law and do "everything in its power" to have it amended if it is found to be ...

His fellow leader, Charles McDew, was enrolled at nearby South Carolina State College ... Gaither said in a 2011 oral history of the civil rights movement. “The amazing thing about the ...

While landmark laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ... a law professor at the University of South Carolina who worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces ...

Other states (like Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico), have ruled that partisan gerrymandering violates voters’ rights under similar provisions. Representing the League of Women Voters of South ...