Cobb used the Civil Rights Movement as a framework to discuss collective action under the Trump administration.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — On Tuesday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute kicked off its 18th Legacy Youth Leadership Program, an effort to transform Birmingham’s civil rights history into a ...

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

A free screening of “Triumph: Tampa’s Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement” will be at Tampa Theatre on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at 3 p.m. The filmmaker explained the significance of the ...

[Horn plays] [Drum roll begins] FANNIE LOU HAMER: I question America, Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave. ELAINE BROWN: The Black Panther Party with many other groups and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Six sites across Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida join the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, including a courthouse tied to Loving v. Virginia.

Throughout Black history, there have been celebrities who have leveraged their fame to fight for justice. A number of entertainers and athletes have used their influence to fight inequality and ...