As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

In honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the community came together Sunday afternoon to fill the Warren Ballrooms on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus with laughter, cheer and song. For the first ...

A complex drama about a fictional Illinois-based Black American political family and the Civil Rights movement ... Nazareth “Naz” Jasper; LaTanya Richardson Jackson — who was a 2024 ...

A priest, a women's leader and three physicians made efforts to improve conditions for North Omaha and its Black community in the years before the Civil Rights Act.

Throughout history, Black women have been at the forefront of social movements, from the suffrage and civil rights movements ...

Kevin Richardson, one of the Exonerated Five, stopped by his alma mater in the Bronx on Friday to discuss the importance of knowing your rights when encountering law enforcement.

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...

Gloria Ann DeGroff, 80, of Hingham, passed away on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice. Gloria was born on June 11, 1944, to Richard and Naomi (Maney) Tessmer in ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil ...

“This is hard work, and work where I wish there were just, there was just more time in the day to do even more,” she said as she sat surrounded by portraits of civil rights icons including ...