In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Over the past 25 years the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Foundation has been working to restore the home and turn it into a ...

Barry Moore (R-Ala.) recently reintroduced the Define to Defeat Act, a much-needed federal measure that would help address the gaping loopholes in how our laws currently respond to antisemitic attacks ...

Recently, on May 31, 2025, I attended a community celebration for the sculpture unveiling ceremony honoring Dr. Martin Luther ...

Life in the 1920s looked vastly different than our world today. From fashion and music to sports and travel, here's how times ...

“Civil Rights and Workers Rights: An Exhibit of Hapeville’s Atlanta Assembly Plant” explores the plant’s integration by Black workers. “Of Men and Mules: Convict Leasing in Quarries of the New South” ...

On Tuesday, more than 500 workers and allies will join a culminating rally at Lafayette Park in New Orleans to demand an end ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

Former president of National Civil Rights Museum on airport renamed after Fred Smith Melania Trump's visa questioned in ...

Explore the NMAAHC's Civil Rights exhibit and the impact of Trump's executive order on cultural institutions and the preservation of Black history.

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. For the last four years, Alabama’s current Republican governor, Kay Ivey, used her executive powers to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday. The ...

It's hard to imagine a Memphis household that wasn't affected in some way, large (employment) or small (the Grizzlies), by ...