In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as we take the time to look back on the life of Dr. King, we also want to honor those who have helped uplift his legacy and the legacy of multiple civil rights ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

“We are not going down without a fight. We are not going down to Jim Crow maps,” said Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in the ...

Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Liuzzo did not die just for the conservative majority to commit this heartless act of political vandalism.

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning congressional district.

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...

For many, the notion of government surveillance feels distant, the start of a policy debate about wiretaps or monitoring phones. To us at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it means ...