Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a community-engaged learning trip led by the Swearer Center and in partnership with ...

Rochelle "Shelly" Dahmer writes an illustrated biography about her husband's slain grandfather, Vernon Dahmer, with 9- to 12-year-olds in mind.

The following five stories are a great place to start if you’re interested in learning about historic places, people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American ...

Honoring the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights changemakers, Tye, a former reporter for The Boston Globe, will discuss these jazzmen's lives off the bandstand, ...

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 ...

With these developments, rights activists say there are plenty of reasons to laud Nepal for its influence on the global LGBTIQA+ rights movement. Despite these positive ... However, Section 67 of the ...

the complaint hadn't sufficiently established a civil rights claim against them. But Gerrard allowed the case to go forward against Wilkie, Custer County, Sheriff Dan Osmond and two of his ...

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 ...

The resurgence of the American labor movement is being led in no small part by a cohort of young, diverse, fired-up workers around the country. Union density remains embarrassingly low overall ...

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 ...

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.