"Black history, by definition, is political. Black people, by definition, are political," author and creator of The 1619 ...

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

Masked criminals attacked several Citibank locations in New York City one night last September. They brandished no guns and demanded no cash. Instead, they squeezed epoxy and cemented stickers on ...

Sixty years ago today the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March concluded with Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a ...

March 25, 1965, marked a turning point in history. America's civil rights leaders completed their 54-mile march from Selma, ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

The US attorney in Washington, DC, arguing the public needs to know the “truth” about the assassination of Martin Luther King ...

Alabama continues to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, with a series of events in the state’s capital city intended to cause reflection, celebration and ...

Montgomery, Alabama, the final site of a crucial march from Selma, is set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of an event that ...

At the meeting, Chaplain Thompson was the first to speak, arguing that traveling to Selma, where the voting rights march was ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...