Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld ...

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues the ...

Alabama civil rights survivor, Sarah Collins Rudolph, spoke to Monrovia Elementary School students, recounting her ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how we can advance opportunity in education. Oct 24, 2025, 01:23pm EDT Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down ...

Discover the powerful role of the Black Press in the Civil Rights Movement and how it amplified Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s ...

As the nation pauses this Memorial Day to honor and remember those who have served, many veterans are now facing a new battle at home. In addition to these abuses that have dominated the news cycle, ...

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 ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become “radicalized.” In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus at age 15 helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. In 1955, Rosa Parks famously ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become "radicalized." In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...