Ruby Bridges’ story is one of bravery, determination, and the fight for equal rights. At just six years old, Ruby became a ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

"I Have a Dream" was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, in which he called for an end to racism in the United States.

The Justice Department has ordered the civil rights division to halt much of its investigative activity dating from the Biden administration and not pursue new indictments, cases or settlements ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a memo to its civil rights division ... Beaton refused to be a "rubber stamp" for a 240-page reform plan prompted by the 2020 police-involved shooting ...

"This generation has been so far removed from the trials and tribulations that were going on pre-Civil Rights Movement, it is no longer a priority for them to keep it from happening again.

The rally at the historic Black church was intended in part to celebrate the civil rights legend and unite to protect those rights under the Trump administration. At the same time across town at ...

President Biden on Sunday announced pardons for five individuals, including multiple civil rights advocates, and commuted the sentences of two others. “America is a country built on the promise ...

dismantling DEI offices and rolling back decades-old protections put in place during the Civil Rights Movement. The Supreme Court seems inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas ...

WASHINGTON — A segregated society. That was the reality of Jimmy Carter’s boyhood. He wrote about his younger years in his book of poetry, ‘Always A Reckoning.’ “My young life, shaped by ...

King advised him on ways to advance civil rights for Black Americans, Earnie Green, Carter’s former assistant labor secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, shared with theGrio exclusively.

not least in the arena of the civil rights movement. Carter was a Georgian of many generations, whose farming family’s presence in the South predated the United States itself. He had no trouble ...