While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short in key areas ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

Hamer was deeply involved in the civil rights movement, a community organizer known for her use ... between the legend and ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the ... or is that something that's going to make children upset, and we don't need to do it?

An appellate panel ruled that orders blocking four NJ districts from removing transgender student protections were legal and should remain in place.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a tax-exempt, charitable organization incorporated in 1971 under Section 501 (c) (3) of ...

Teaching these "false ideologies" both violates civil rights law and "usurps basic parental authority" over their children's education ... anticipates a resistance movement affirming the ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...