After the All Roads Lead to the South National Day of Action, civil rights leaders have announced massive plans for an even ...

Three new historical markers are now telling the story of Jacksonville’s role in the civil rights movement — and the national ...

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

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Clarence B. Jones, the civil rights lawyer, activist, and speechwriter who helped draft Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic ...

Former Massachusetts State Representative and civil rights activist Benjamin Swan has passed away on Monday at the age of 92.

As the personal attorney to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Clarence B. Jones was heavily involved in some of the key ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

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There’s something perverse about boiling down attacks on Black voting rights to just partisan strategizing.

Clarence B. Jones, a civil rights attorney and close adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has died at age 95.