Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is accusing President Trump of seeking to start a civil war. The California Democrat, a long-time adversary of Trump, said the early flood of presidential policies — ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Drive will fully reopen once work on its namesake bridge behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art is completed, likely by September, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker said in her second ...

Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries — from “Yankee Doodle” during the Revolutionary War period to “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” — and ...

Universities will get nowhere by facilitating the Trump administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian students.

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

My schedule has been erratic this winter while I deal with some of that real-world stuff, which I’ll have some more to say about it in a near-future newsletter or column. Meanwhile, the fight for a ...

The Rev. Marcus D. Cosby of the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston is encouraging his congregation to take part in a ...

The next morning, more consequences awaited Cunningham at Male High School. The principal, Williams Standford Milburn, called ...

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Sixty years after Bloody Sunday, the SPLC honors 40 civil rights martyrs with a ceremony focused on today’s fight to preserve ...

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was ...