A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

A string of settlements has brought new scrutiny on whether the small South Bay city is doing enough to prevent fatal ...

Buffalo soldiers under the direction of John “Blackjack” Pershing were tasked with chasing down Mexican revolutionary Pancho ...

An outpost for Chicano culture in Vietnam attracts community — and occasional concerns among older generations inclined to ...

The change was the first of its kind since the city was incorporated in 1910 and, led by Juan Cornejo, who became mayor, it is referred to as the spark that started the Chicano Civil Rights Movement ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday moved to dislodge a cornerstone of modern civil rights law through a sweeping executive order that strips the federal government of the key tool it used to ...

Evers, a journalist, activist and widow of slain NAACP leader Medgar Evers whose legacy spans decades of advocacy, represents the unshakable resolve that helped define the Civil Rights Movement ...

When former attorney and civil rights pioneer Rita Geier received an honorary doctorate degree last week from the University of Tennessee, it was an odd sort of full-circle moment: The award ...

They didn't hold high public office, they didn't fight wars and they didn't possess vast wealth and riches. Yet, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X still managed to become two of the most ...

A federal court ruled that President Trump’s removals were illegal and arbitrary and ordered two board members reinstated. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage, reporting from Washington, has ...

Yet, equipped with the teachings of Dr. King and other civil rights leaders, black and white, et.al, who engaged in moral reimagination, I continue to stand steadfast in my commitment to truth ...