They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for the things I do.” ...

A new marker on the Mississippi Freedom Trail was unveiled in Canton, commemorating the Canton Freedom House's role in the Civil Rights Movement.

The Canton Freedom House, key to the US Civil Rights Movement and the last CORE site in Mississippi, joins the Freedom Trail.

Middlebrook said he met Jackson while in Selma, Alabama, in 1963 while working for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It ...

The way to honor Jackson is to “intensify the struggle for racial and economic justice,” his campaign co-chair said.

Memoir coauthor and Vanderbilt University scholars say the Rev. James Lawson's new posthumous memoir explores the nuances of ...

Former MSNBC anchor and best-selling author Joy-Anne Reid received a prestigious honor at the University of Memphis Saturday.

A trailblazing educator and civil rights activist in DeSoto County passed away on Tuesday evening. Dr. Clarence Christian’s life brought him in contact with several prominent civil rights leaders; ...

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 ...

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 ...

Donald Trump stated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt White people by causing reverse discrimination. The author argues Trump's administration has weakened civil rights protections and dismantled ...

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 ...