On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...

Juan Williams’ latest dissection of the Civil Rights Movement, “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” is a masterful sequel to his 1987 best-seller — “Eyes on ...

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement that transformed a country in which 10% of its people were ...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement.