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

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the ...

Leaders are seething after Trump revoked enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, or Title VII, under the Civil ...

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as four other justice ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the ...

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

Activists want to safeguard policies and avoid funding cuts to social-service programs that largely support Black and Latino ...

As Donald Trump begins his second stint in the White House with an assault on DEI, the nation’s top civil and human rights leaders will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 22, for an emergency strategy ...

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U ...

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...