The American civil rights group NAACP has thousands of chapters across the United States, but did you know that the first rural branch of the activist group was ...

Ramos, the founder and leader of the Chicano movement in Long Beach, was described as a leader, trailblazer, mentor, inspiration and aspiration by many who knew him during a celebration of life on ...

I n 1996, the New York-based civil rights organization known as UPROSE was struggling. Founded by Puerto Rican activists, the ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change. The March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, featured live performances by ...

Nestled in the edge of West Sacramento lies The Latino Center of Art and Culture, a museum and multidisciplinary cultural center that brings a sense of home and support to all of the community, ...

Resisting with marches won't be enough. We must approach the next four years with the resilience to adapt, innovate and be bold in our solutions.

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature ... on a coat and tie to get what are basically our rights? The student movement was positive, and without it we couldn ...

By Glenn Thrush Reporting from Washington The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of Biden-era ...

Attorneys in the department’s Civil Rights Division were ordered not to file any new complaints, amicus briefs or other certain court papers “until further notice,” one of the memos said. Another memo ...