A storied Cocoa house that hosted MLK, civil rights leaders to be rededicated in honor of late Pastor W.O. Wells ...

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 ...

"We're still in the struggle to save Black men's bodies and White men's souls," Andrew Young says ...

The 2026 "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, echoes the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 march.

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 ...

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, died this week at 92, was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, and groundwork laid by Black feminists.

A new space at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis explores the recent past and future of the movement.

Shavon Arline-Bradley, Fred D. Gray, Nneka Ogwumike and Bakari Sellers are the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award honorees for 2026.

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...

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 ...

Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson -- Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts -- The Young Women ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...