The Urban Civil Rights Museum, Harlem, New York City’s first museum dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement, is set ...

For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

America’s climactic battle for civil rights took place in Selma, Alabama 60 years ago. The March in Selma focused on voting ...

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The first Black congregations in America pre ...

From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become “radicalized.” In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...