The Supreme Court appears inclined to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act to force states to draw electoral districts ...

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 ...

Long Civil Rights Movement This approach extends the Civil Rights timeline far beyond the 1950s and 1960s, showing how the fight for equality grew out of earlier battles stretching back to ...

The new Hulu documentary explores how Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama used basketball to connect with people. Photo courtesy of @alexysthegreat on Instagram In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

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 ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...