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 ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

The legacy of government surveillance directed at the civil rights movement is not confined to the past.

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 ...

Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the ...

Natchez filmmakers donate civil rights documentary “The Parchman Ordeal” and original interviews to Jackson State’s Margaret ...

Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...

The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.’s only synagogue, evokes that state’s dark legacy of violence toward those supporting racial equality — one stretching back more than 60 ...