Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...

Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...

The godfather of the movement was born on March 17, 1912, and should be celebrated as a history maker, particularly as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

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 ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...

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 Paducah-McCracken County NAACP is hosting the 2026 Rosa Parks: Power of One Banquet today, Saturday, March 21, featuring live music and guest speakers presented by Local 6 Reporter Arriyonna ...

Over the past few days, there's been a lot of chatter — and a lot of outrage — over claims that the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History and the National Museum of African American ...

The Paducah-McCracken County NAACP is hosting the 2026 Rosa Parks: Power of One Banquet today, Saturday, March 21, featuring live music and guest speakers presented by Local 6 Reporter Arriyonna ...