Nearly 60 years after King’s death, civil rights leaders say Trump is forcing the movement to reinvent itself again as protections are recast as discrimination.

The Jefferson Educational Society continued its Global Summit Speaker series Thursday evening. Journalist and political analyst, Juan Williams, spoke at Gannon University about civil rights and 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, ...

New York is about to get a long-overdue addition to its cultural landscape: the Urban Civil Rights Museum, set to open in Harlem later this year. When it does, it will become the city’s first museum ...

The 19th of January marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national holiday honoring a man best remembered for urging Americans ...

For decades, conservatives have worked to rollback the civil and voting rights that Martin Luther King Jr. upheld ...

Protest has defined the story of the United States since its founding in 1776. Is this moment any different?

Richard Arrington Jr., Birmingham's first Black mayor, shares his experiences with segregation and offers insights on the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil ...

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The ...

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...