Officials unveiled a new historical marker for Nashville Christian Institute, a former boarding school for Black young men.

The National Civil Rights Museum will host a ceremony to commemorate the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis.

A Fifth Circuit judge invoked the government’s prosecutions of Capitol rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, as she sharply questioned a civil rights activist’s ties to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the civil rights movement.

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing private education with public dollars.

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a Freedom Rider and again while leading the Bloody Sunday march for voting rights in 1965.

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The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The Education Department has, since its creation 25 years after the landmark ruling, taken on a central role in mediating disputes and enforcing civil rights laws across the country.

Dr. Jones dives into the powerful connections between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland. He highlights how the Montgomery to ...