For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

President Trump revoked a Civil Rights-era anti-discrimination rule for federal contractors, but the action doesn’t repeal ...

Historians say the Trump-ordered release of more information on the killings of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of former ...

Donald Trump wants to declassify remaining documents related to the assassination of John F Kennedy, RFK and MLK.

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you’re interested in learning about historic places, people and ...

Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

President Joe Biden posthumously pardoned civil rights leader and Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey, along with four others, and ...

the group became a human rights organization inspired by the Black Panther Party, according to the Library of Congress archives. “Cha Cha became one of the most pivotal figures in civil rights ...