On the evening of Dec. 1, 1955, a Thursday, in Montgomery, Ala., a 42-year-old Black seamstress and secretary of the NAACP ...

One of the biggest civil rights movements began in America when a coloured woman, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat ...

Thursday, the community celebrated 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honored former US Attorney General ...

The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt -- Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross -- Black power, Chicago politics, and social ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

When Americans think of the civil rights movement, we may think of the bridge in Selma or the boycott in Montgomery or the march on Washington, but if we remember a single image, it is likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vince Staples joked that Black folks simply look “better” during revolutions, and the Civil Rights Movement and Black Panther ...