She was attacked by mounted police officers on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. Her efforts, along with "Bloody Sunday," were ...

As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation.

Local' issue Today, "Selma" is remembered as a watershed moment for civil rights – and a national event that drew some of the movement's biggest names of the era. It didn't start out that way ...

THE MARCHES HELPED THE PASSAGE OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965. THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, HE CHAMPIONED CIVIL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ... 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the time has come for the creation of an “armed forces of Europe” because the U.S. may no longer be counted on to support Europe The Latest ...

The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida will display art from Spelman College—a historically black liberal arts college for women located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Leading Turkish artist Selma Gürbüz, known for her works depicting human-animal hybrids and shadowy, genderless figures, died April 22 in Istanbul of complications related to Covid-19. She was ...

At the end of June 2024, 122.6 million people worldwide remained forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations or events seriously disturbing public order. This ...

The 1951 Convention provides the internationally recognized definition of a refugee and outlines the legal protection, rights and assistance a refugee is entitled to receive. UNHCR serves as the ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

They recruited a national civil rights figure, Bishop William Barber II, to remind the public and local officials this week of their duty to poor and vulnerable people. Barber is a Protestant minister ...