Council of Councils global perspectives roundups gather opinions from experts on major international developments. In this edition, members from leading global think tanks in Australia, Brazil, ...

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.

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees Americans the right to assemble, speak freely and petition the government, protections that have fueled some of the most impactful movements in ...

In recent years, activism at Brown has drawn national media attention, but the University’s history of protest dates back decades. Offered once every few years, the first-year seminar AFRI 0610: ...

They’ve become commonplace in the Triangle and across the country – gatherings from a few dozen to a few thousand in protest of recent grand jury decisions in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., ...

Black sharecroppers in Fayette County, Tennessee, were evicted for attempting to register to vote in the late 1950s. The evicted families established an encampment known as "Tent City" or "Fayette ...

Thirty-six years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, guaranteeing civil rights for millions of Americans. But the movement that made that day possible began years earlier.

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