For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Civil rights leaders in Virginia on Wednesday denounced a political campaign opposing the state’s April 21 redistricting ...

The revival of "Denim Sunday" in Huntsville offers a poignant tribute to its Civil Rights Movement origins.

A free screening of “Triumph: Tampa’s Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement” will be at Tampa Theatre on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at 3 p.m. The filmmaker explained the significance of the ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...

Angela Davis, left, autographs posters under the watchful eye of fellow activists and bodyguards in 1973. At right, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is arrested in Louisiana in 2016 while ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

Throughout Black history, there have been celebrities who have leveraged their fame to fight for justice. A number of entertainers and athletes have used their influence to fight inequality and ...