LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Singleton only met civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. once, but that meeting changed his life. As the 50th anniversary of King's death approaches on April 4, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is set to reestablish a civil rights division focused on religious ...

In 1961, the Freedom Riders helped pave the way for civil rights achievements such as the Voting Rights Act that is now being ...

Nearly 60 years after a young civil rights protester was killed on a Jackson street, community leaders, family members and residents gathered to ensure his legacy will not be forgotten.

Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental piece of legislation that forever changed the nature of race and gender in American ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor his life and work. Charles Person died earlier this ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

Long origins of the short civil rights movement, 1954-1968 / Steven F. Lawson -- Hollywood, the NAACP, and the cultural politics of the early civil rights movement / Justin T. Lorts -- The Young Women ...

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

Lauded by National Civil Rights Museum president Russ Wigginton as a "systems-changing voting rights warrior," Stacey Abrams received a rapturous rock-star welcome during Thursday night's National ...