Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a ...

An app which showcases people, places and events on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail is now available.

The National Civil Rights Museum marked the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Saturday with a ...

The town of Boley, an all-Black town that is home of one of the nation's oldest Black rodeos, the Greenwood Rising Black Wall Street History Center in Tulsa and the city of Fairfax are among the sites ...

One of those people was my great uncle and namesake, George C. Greenidge of Roxbury, Massachusetts (b.1916–d.1997).

Historian Professor Josh Clark Davis discusses the organized resistance of civil rights activists against police violence and ...

A crowd, estimated at 5,000 inside church during a rally at Montgomery's First Baptist Church in 1956. Anti-Trump activists are deploying an array of tactics to fight back against the policies of the ...

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

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Federal cuts to cultural institutions across the nation have prompted Quad-Cities organizations to strengthen their efforts to preserve civil rights history. In January 2010, ...

Student winners of this year's City of Bloomington Black History Essay Contest wrote about everyone from civil rights icons to artists, musicians and little-known scientists. The young people have ...

If you drive through the heart of Atlanta, you will inevitably see his name etched onto street signs that intersect with those of other civil rights titans like John Lewis. While he may not have been ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...