Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

Ernest Withers took some of the most iconic photographs of the American civil rights movement. He was in the room, on the march, at the funeral. He photographed Martin Luther King Jr. so many times ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Throughout the 2010s and culminating in 2020, conservatives rightly objected to the left's increasingly infantile ideas about race and sex. No, not every interaction can or should be viewed through ...

Explore powerful sites along Virginia’s Civil Rights Trail where student activism, peaceful protest, and landmark legal battles helped reshape the nation’s fight for equality Sponsored Content by A ...

America's story is often told through presidents. Wars and founding documents, but in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, children changed the course of the nation. Black students, some still in elementary ...

He was jailed while marching with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming Detroit's first Black surgical resident physician.

To see the December protests in Russia as primarily a political wave is to miss a more fundamental leaven at work in Russian society: a moral awakening akin to the American civil rights movement. An ...

As America nears its 250th anniversary, the 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama, stands as a powerful reminder of the sacrifices made to expand democracy during the Civil Rights ...