Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

SPRINGFIELD — A chance discovery in Springfield College’s archives led a local professor on a yearslong quest to write about a lesser-known chapter in the nation’s Civil Rights Movement. There, Martin ...

Jocelyn Benson has been Michigan’s Secretary of State since the start of 2019. But before that, she was, as she describes, “a student of the Civil Rights movement,” moving to Montgomery, Alabama ...

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...

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In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys through the Civil Rights Movement and the longer Black freedom struggle that made it possible.

The Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent protest during the civil rights movement, leading sit-ins, marches and Freedom Rides that withstood ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

The Knoxville Area Urban League honored a former local NAACP president with the Whitney M. Young Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for 2026.

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 ...