Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.

It’s been almost 60 years since the Civil Rights Movement and the remnants that it left on the world as whole and the ...

Dooky Chase's Restaurant has revealed its long-awaited upstairs dining room. Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, one of New Orleans' ...

Photographer Nolan Trowe documented disability rights advocates at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in May. The protest was reminiscent of the Capitol Crawl in Washington in 1990.

Amb. Andrew Young is among the speakers and ceremonial figures for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter in Washington.

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight for ciivl rights.

Charles Person, known as the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. He passed away peacefully at his ...

The Gideon vs. Wainwright Historical Marker in Panama City celebrates a landmark 1963 Supreme Court ruling. ©Dick Demarsico ...

With its ambitions abroad temporarily limited by Israel's strikes on Hamas and Hezbollah, and the loss of supply lines ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

Nearly 70 years ago, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally tortured, murdered and disposed of in a river after whistling at a ...

Among the big losers of the 2024 election were politicians and activist groups who claim so-called “dark money” is the secret force driving American politics. Groups that do not disclose ...