In this file photo, a movie plays as part of the March on Washington exhibit at the newly built National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. The new museum about the history of civil rights ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. We are just sixty short years removed from a time in our history when it was legal to segregate, ...

The work for civil rights never ends. But in Riverside, the work at the Civil Rights Institute is racing toward a deadline. When I visit on Wednesday, 10 days before the opening, a temporary fence ...

In his new book entitled “The Jim Crow North: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Pottstown, Pennsylvania” (2024, University Press of Kentucky), Pottstown native Matthew G. Washington, PhD, explores ...

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

The Maroon sat down with author and historian Mark Speltz, whose new book focuses on Civil Rights efforts outside the South. Picture an image of the Civil Rights Movement. You’ll probably see it in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead 56 years ago today in Memphis, Tennessee. His assassin "hoped to kill MLK's great and widespread dream of unity," Alveda King, the civil rights leader's niece, ...

Sixty years after civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched to Washington, D.C., to call for freedom and economic growth, today’s generation of civil rights leaders reflect on their ...

The United Nations has embarked on an initiative to address the male-dominated power structure within its own ranks and now has more women than men in the senior management team, Secretary-General ...