In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political ...
John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.
There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...
North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the death of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. He is ...
When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...
North Carolina and the country lost a legend last month with the passing of the Rev. Dr. Nelson N. Johnson at age 81. Johnson’s work as a civil and labor rights ... in South Africa that followed ...
The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of ...
North Carolina. The peaceful sit-in, which lasted more than five months, sparked a wave of similar protests across the South and became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. McNeil ...
The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...