The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, ...

Reverend James D. Peters, Jr., a civil rights activist and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., passed away Saturday. He was 92 years old. His death was announced by community leader Sylvia ...

Three months after Sen. Cory Booker broke his chamber's record for the longest speech ever, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

The NAACP’s 116th annual convention opened in Charlotte over the weekend. The theme is “the fierce urgency of now,” a phrase borrowed from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that organizers say speaks even ...

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil ...

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate, was released from custody on June 20. Free speech was at the center of his case and whether the U.S. government targeted him for deportation ...

Reverend James D. Peters, Jr., a civil rights advocate and pastor, died at 92. Celebrate his life and legacy at New Hope Baptist Church in Denver.

Civil rights leaders, and Republican and Democratic politicians, are calling for the CIF to reinstate gold medal to Clara Adams of Salinas. She sprayed her cleats with a fire extinguisher, which ...

Deservedly so. He did not especially stand out amid the tide of rising civil rights leaders nationally. Nor did he make any fiery, memorable speeches. But his work was vital.

A Denver pastor and Civil Rights icon who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organize the 1963 March on Washington has passed away.

More than a year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt heard arguments from the civil rights leaders of the era for the desegregation of the military in preparation for the wars in ...