Directed by Dexter J. Singleton, the dramedy depicts the kitchen at the Harlem nightspot famous for the birth of the bebop scene, circa 1943. While a mostly-white clientele would eat fried chicken and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The white college student supported Black voters in segregated Alabama, and began documenting the front lines of the voting rights fight, which locals continue to disregard. Ad Policy SCLC volunteers, ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump alleged in a recent interview that civil rights-era policies aimed at remedying historic patterns of racism resulted in White people being "very badly treated." The president ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday ...