The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Planned Parenthood of Illinois will pay $500,000 to end an investigation ...

The godfather of the movement was born on March 17, 1912, and should be celebrated as a history maker, particularly as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary.

Dorothy Prevost, mother of one of the New Orleans Four, will lie in repose Friday, March 13 at Gallier Hall with funeral services Saturday, March 14.

Book documents voter rights struggles and other civil rights issues that sparked turbulence in Plaquemine in 1963.

Watch the stream of the funeral service here.

On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit.

In Mississippi, 38 percent of residents are Black yet there are no Black statewide elected officials. The last time a Black ...

The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act is framed by the White House as part of a broader “SAVE America Act” agenda.

Harrowing footage from the Civil Rights era—courageous protesters demanding their right to vote, met with batons and tear gas—still haunts the American conscience. Those searing images of ...

WASHINGTON — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices ...