The City of Atlanta celebrated a living piece of American history on Saturday by dedicating a lasting community landmark to a ...

Before the summer of 1952, the 23-year-old private first class had never even taken part in a civil rights protest—but after ...

“Protest is the heartbeat of a functioning democracy,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, told ...

The Root spoke to one legal expert, who warned Texas protest sentences could chill dissent and reshape how future political demonstrations are prosecuted.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clarence B. Jones, a Civil Rights attorney and close adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped organize the 1963 ...

The kickoff event for Jacksonville joining the U.S. Civil Rights Trail featured a marker standing a few feet from the pulpit where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a sermon titled “This Is a Great ...

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital Smart News Before his assassination in 1963, ...

Four years before the Stonewall uprising in New York City brought queer liberation to the forefront of national conversation, the first protests for LGBTQ+ rights took place in Philadelphia. Annual ...

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...