At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Narratives about the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s often highlight the influence of the Black church.

We Are Also in Bondage Here: Black Women in the Washington Civil Rights Movement Thursday March 13, 2025 at 6 pm via Zoom REGISTER HERE In the 1960s, Freddie Mae Gautier wrote to Martin Luther King Jr ...

President Donald Trump ’s nominee for United States Attorney for the District of Columbia has made a string of racist and ...

Appointed by President Donald Trump in January 2025, interim US attorney Ed Martin is under scrutiny for making false and derogatory statements leading up to and during his current tenure, The ...

His attitude later lent strength to the American civil rights movement, as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social change. King was one ...