BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement ...

February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons ...

In 1944, a group of eight Howard University students took a stand against the status quo in segregated Virginia. Now, a commemorative site honors their efforts to fight back against Jim Crow laws.

Holder, the president of the Equal Justice Society, has spent more than two decades working to dismantle systems of racial ...

Being Black in America is an honor and a privilege. Black people in this country have endured and overcome so much while simultaneously contributing to every aspect of America’s foundation, culture ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... down from about a football field away. Some ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division ... because the tests disqualified more female and African-American applicants than others and were not job related ...

Jones delivered his speech with a central message on the importance of education in Leon County Schools and HBCUs, basing it ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights ...