It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

Two events on Tuesday will honor local high school students who organized a sit-in 65 years ago during the Civil Rights Movement to end legalized segregation in public accommodations. The 26 students, ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're taking a look at three Nashville landmarks that played a major role in the Civil ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

"To be at the age when he did this, I cannot fathom how much he went through and how traumatizing it was," granddaughter ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to be. They did not stop the demonstrations, and they did not prevent ...

Federal Minister for Planning and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal has said people have rejected the elements making calls for protests and sit-ins repeatedly and today's show by Pakistan Tehreek e ...

By Trip Gabriel The sit-in movement that began at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro ... commitment and changed the direction of the civil rights movement. Within days, protesters in ...

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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 ...