While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

By 1920, it had grown to become the largest Black organization ever developed. It was not a civil rights group seeking ... To established Black leaders, such as W.E.B. DuBois of the NAACP, Garvey ...

The civil rights leader led a march through Howard Beach, Queens, after a white mob beat three Black men. Attorney Ben Crump speaks at a press conference outside the federal courthouse on July ...

Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch ... success for the civil rights movement.

Civil rights leaders say in each case ... When officers caught up with Pridgen, they claim he was drunk, defying commands and refused to put his hands behind his back. Stevens said he doesn ...

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Editor’s note: The Herald-Leader is profile 25 individuals we expect ... candidate at the University of Kentucky studying Black love. Background: As an undergraduate student at UK in 2013 ...

but even [President Richard] Nixon had a program of Black capitalism. Even Nixon signed Voting Rights Act extensions,” he recalled. Regardless, civil rights leaders say they are up for the ...

Julius Garvey said that efforts for a pardon ramped up during the Obama administration, describing how he and family members and advocates hoped that the first Black president would see the value ...

Civil rights leaders Marc Morial and Janai Nelson discuss why Trump symbolizes "the most significant contradiction" to what MLK stood for, plus how civil rights leaders are mobilizing ahead of the ...

The Justice Department ordered its civil rights division to pause ongoing litigation ... Text “Alerts” to (201) 335-0739 or sign up here. When Dhillon will have her Senate confirmation hearing.

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as ...