Civil rights activists gathered in Washington on Friday in a major show of opposition to restrictions on voting being pushed ...

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the ...

Black labor has powered America for generations, helping shape the labor movement even as unions and lawmakers often left Black ...

The event Friday follows a Supreme Court decision allowing Southern states to redraw their congressional maps in a way that ...

Modern activism often mimics the visible aspects of the Civil Rights Movement, like marches, without understanding the deeper organizational work that made it effective. Injustice has evolved, now ...

When the “Annapolis Five” protested racism in our city, they were using the same tactics that union workers were using. Labor ...

Marcia Chatelain is a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'The fact that we still have to fight to maintain and renew voting rights in this country is beyond abysmal and a truly national disgrace,' Martin Luther King III said Friday.

Blue-collar and white-collar workers increasingly find themselves on opposite sides of the groundswell against AI data centers. But there are opportunities for building trades unions to make common ...

The first factory strike in U.S. history began on May 26th, 1824. The New England factory system itself was still finding its footing, and its legions of poorly paid young workers were at constant ...

OBITUARY-Feminist activist Gloria Steinem dies at age 92 ...