Trevecca Nazarene University takes students on annual bus tours through Nashville's Civil Rights landmarks, bringing history to life beyond textbooks.

Eden Prairie students honored at City Council for art and essays inspired by Black civil rights leaders during Words in Action contest.

With unlimited websites competing for your attention, a leading scholar of conservatism shares his go-to reading list.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who forged strong ties to Nashville through his longtime advocacy work, has ...

Jesse Jackson's successful library sit-in at a Greenville, South Carolina library influenced Nashville's own lunch counter protests.

Before accepting the Hooks National Book Award at the University of Memphis on Feb. 13, journalist and author Joy-Ann Reid reflected on why she chose to tell the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers not ...

Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 — choosing the second week of February to coincide with Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass’ birthdays — as a way to honor the often ...

Emily Yellin discusses her collaborative memoir with the late James Lawson, ‘the architect of the nonviolent movement in America’ ...

The size of the Poor People's March on Washington is astonishing. View Entire Post › ...

SOUTH HADLEY — Civil rights activist Judy Richardson moved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in ways she said might have not been possible in other organizations during the ...

The Civil Right Division of the Department of Justice was created in 1957 to act as the federal government’s independent investigative and enforcement mechanism for civil rights law in the United ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Lansing Monday for the 41st annual Day of Celebration to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s among the largest and longest-running annual gatherings to mark the civil ...