While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

WASHINGTON – While Donald Trump is being sworn in as president for the second time on Monday, civil rights activists plan to take a different oath just a few blocks from the White House ... the leader now of the MAGA movement." On that same day, Black ...

For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U ...

A White House official announced Trump’s executive order dismantling federal DEI programs, saying it honors "civil rights champions" who wanted all Americans to "be treated on the basis of their character,

Explore the vital role Black churches play in the fight for civil rights and social justice, fostering resilience, collective identity, and community activism.

US President Joe Biden has pardoned five people including the late civil rights activist Marcus Garvey, the White House said Sunday, just hours before he cedes the Oval Office to Donald Trump.

The Albany Movement was not a failure. It was a targeted hit by a president protecting the vested interests of a rabid racist and his own shot at a second term.

President Donald Trump’s massive freeze on what appears to be trillions of dollars of federal aid is being challenged as possibly illegal, as state and federal lawmakers, governors, and the heads of nonprofit agencies that rely on federal funds,

Tim Rarus, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Greg Hlibok, Jerry Covell appear in Deaf President Now! by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jeff Beatty.

The Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County is sponsoring several programs to celebrate February as Black History Month, including two lectures about civil rights advocates, an informal discussion following the American Heroes Bicentennial Speaker Series presentation and presentations for area youths which focus on the Underground Railroad.