One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought ...

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 ...

Council of Councils global perspectives roundups gather opinions from experts on major international developments. In this edition, members from leading global think tanks in Australia, Brazil, ...

Rep. Gwen Moore is drawing connections between current anti-ICE protests and the civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, emphasizing the importance of resistance and First Amendment rights in both ...

In recent years, activism at Brown has drawn national media attention, but the University’s history of protest dates back decades. Offered once every few years, the first-year seminar AFRI 0610: ...

Atlanta leaders honored civil rights trailblazer John T. Johnson with a dedicated street sign unveiling on Saturday. Johnson famously helped organize major demonstrations with the Southern Christian ...

In the wake of a catastrophic Supreme Court ruling, voting rights groups across the South are mobilizing to defend Black political representation and push for state-level voting protections. Voting ...

Cornell Assistant Professor of History Tejasvi Nagaraja presented his new book Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — On this day 62 years ago, the Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine climbed to another level. On June 18, 1964, a photo was taken of young black people swimming in a motel ...

They’ve become commonplace in the Triangle and across the country – gatherings from a few dozen to a few thousand in protest of recent grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., ...

Black sharecroppers in Fayette County, Tennessee, were evicted for attempting to register to vote in the late 1950s. The evicted families established an encampment known as "Tent City" or "Fayette ...