As the nation celebrates Black History Month, PennLive, for the third year, is recognizing men and women making a difference ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Children of civil rights figure murdered in Jacksonville watched on Friday morning as the city unveiled a marker honoring her ...

But sadly it’s also nothing new, especially for trans women of color regarding the truth about their central role in the ...

The Historic Westside of Las Vegas is often forgotten. Still, the neighborhood is a pivotal part of the city's history, ...

In addition to King, other notable speakers at the rally included A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Mahalia Jackson, while ...

Protesters gathered around the U.S. Wednesday in a coordinated effort originating from social media known as the 50501 movement. "50501 is a call for 50 protests in 50 states on 1 day," reads a ...

Channel 2′s Karyn Greer spoke with Ambassador Andrew Young about his most memorable moments of the civil rights movement. “I enjoyed the civil rights movement,” Young said. He was a ...

ATLANTA — Georgia was at the center of the fight for civil rights and throughout the decades, WSB has been committed to covering the movement. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

The billboard mixing Trump’s slogan with one of the most important events of the civil rights movement was not new. It appeared in Pearl, Mississippi in 2016 after Trump was elected to his first ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...