Honor Rosa Parks through action on public transit
A new piece of legislation, the "Stronger Communities through Better Transit Act", would provide high-quality public transit to communities across ...
A new piece of legislation, the "Stronger Communities through Better Transit Act", would provide high-quality public transit to communities across ...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s courage to speak out against the Vietnam War came with a cost.
Harvard student Marley Dias on political strife, breaking the glass ceiling
The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants on August 28, 1963.
'I should have learned the story of Emmett Till in my history classes. I never did.'
No other entertainer immersed themselves so deeply in the Civil Rights Movement as Harry Belafonte.
Harry Belafonte, singer, actor and human rights activist, dies at age 96.
'To actually understand a lot further than just kind of the surface was really inspiring to me.'
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., left, and attorney Fred Gray, whom King called ‘the brilliant young Negro who ...
Autherine Lucy Foster, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from historically Black Miles College in 1952, and whose legal ...
We as a nation desperately need the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, which was passed by the House ...
Sidney Poitier, who died at 94 on Jan. 7, 2022, broke the mold of what a Black actor could be ...
People across the world took to the streets to nonviolently protest the police killing of George Perry Floyd in their ...
Sixty-five years ago today, Rosa Parks made history and helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
When John Lewis left us, editorials and columns paid tribute to his leadership, his courage, and his moral example. The ...
'We’ve lost a founder of modern America, a pioneer who shrunk the gap between reality and our constitutional ideals of ...
John Lewis held fast to his ideals of truth and justice for all.
In 'Good Trouble,' award-winning documentary filmmaker Dawn Porter captures the many sides of John Lewis in lifelong quest for freedom.
Congressman and iconic civil rights champion John Lewis died at the age of 80.
'The kumbaya songs are actually a part of the problem. This is about the Movement, about being an anthem.'
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