The Latest Breaking News from the Civil Rights Movement

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association

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The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum

Author Jessica Pishko probes the beliefs and actions of the hard right constitutional sheriffs movement, whose members say their authority trumps state and federal officials.

The vice president’s father was born in Jamaica and her mother was born in India

Donald Trump’s narrow escape from an assassin’s bullet led me – a historian who has written about political polarization and the Civil Rights Movement – to think back to another norm-smashing populist who encountered death on the campaign trail: former Alabama governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace.

From Marvin Gaye to Little Simz, here are 14 songs that illuminate the power of protest music to make change, as ranked by Finn Cliff Hodges

Signed into law nearly 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or national origin.”