Societal movements, like the ones we are witnessing today in the streets of America, require leaders with plans to achieve visible results, promote ethical, equitable, and fair treatment for all ...

From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – they funded, sheltered and fuelled the fight for equality.

For the first time in 60 years, a U.S. president has deployed the National Guard without a governor's approval. That time, ...

Alabama’s Selma-to-Montgomery march began as a memorial to Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young Black civil rights activist who was killed by police on Feb. 26, 1965.

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

It would be almost another three years before John Lewis got his skull cracked protesting injustice. Three years before he ...

Dem. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was blasted on social media over a post where he compared Dem. Sen. Alex Padilla's press conference outburst to the work of a late Civil Rights hero.

Deep-cut case law and 19th century constitutional interpretation underpin the Trump administration argument for deploying ...

It was March 1965, on the eve of the momentous civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Tensions between protesters and law enforcement officers had been rising across the South.