While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

President Trump signed dozens of executive orders including to eliminate federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training and lay off DEI staff.

WASHINGTON – While Donald Trump is being sworn in as president for the second time on Monday, civil rights activists plan to take a different oath just a few blocks from the White House ... the leader now of the MAGA movement." On that same day, Black ...

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U ...

A White House official announced Trump’s executive order dismantling federal DEI programs, saying it honors "civil rights champions" who wanted all Americans to "be treated on the basis of their character,

Explore the vital role Black churches play in the fight for civil rights and social justice, fostering resilience, collective identity, and community activism.

Donna Brazile makes sense of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy as President Biden leaves office and President Trump takes office yet again.

US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, the White House said Sunday, just hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump.

Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff, is under fire after appearing repeatedly to attempt to whitewash the Office of Management and Budget memo that ordered a funding freeze on “all Federal financial assistance,

The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County is sponsoring several programs to celebrate February as Black History Month, including two lectures about civil rights advocates, an informal discussion following the American Heroes Bicentennial Speaker Series presentation and presentations for area youths which focus on the Underground Railroad.