An effort to protect a Greensboro neighborhood steeped in Black history finally paid off thanks to local support.

Very few Atlanta leaders saw the intersection of civil rights, education and youth development quite as clearly — and early — ...

The first big fight of the 2025 legislative session in South Carolina is splitting Republicans and Democrats as well as ...

The landmark series' six-part continuation uses history to remind us that civil rights are won by ordinary people.

Capitol Men, the fine new book by Philip Dray, tells the story of the men who became the first black Congressmen in the ...

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

Without frills, important HBO documentary series looks back at 1970s arson in the Bronx, the Million Man March of 1995 and ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

Retired Judge Clifton Newman reflects on his family's legacy of fighting for civil rights while the nation faces uncertainty ...

This Black History Month, our commentator interviews a civil rights leader about his past with the sit-in movement and what ...

We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest (1977-2015), the latest chapter of the groundbreaking documentary series that has long ...