Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist ...

Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

He was jailed while marching with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming Detroit's first Black surgical resident physician.

A storied Cocoa house that hosted MLK, civil rights leaders to be rededicated in honor of late Pastor W.O. Wells ...

While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it ...

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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 ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

Ticketed event, presented with the National Association of Black Bookstores, activates the continued legacy, courage, and ...

Civil rights icon Brenda Travis was jailed at 15 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter in McComb and leading protests.

Civil Rights photographer Cecil Williams says South Carolina has made progress, but new debates over race and representation ...