The title of City Theatre’s ”Malcolm X and Redd Foxx Washing Dishes at Jimmy’s Chicken Shack in Harlem” is rather self-explanatory. But while the title might sound surreal, it’s actually a historical ...

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 ...

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons ...

New York is getting its first-ever museum dedicated to the American civil rights movement. “There’s a lot of focus on the Southern experience — segregation, slavery and overcoming it,” said National ...

Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...

In a recent interview, President Trump said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in white people being “very badly treated.” The 1964 Civil Rights act outlawed discrimination based on race, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the nation celebrates Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, it is also a time to remember the women who helped King propel ...

The Black Information Network’s My History Lives Here Black History Month series continues with the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem, New York — a soon-to-open institution focused on documenting ...

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 ...

Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., rebuked President Donald Trump for suggesting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which her father helped get passed into law, led to ...