Martin Luther King Jr. is the first name that comes to mind when thinking of the Civil Rights Movement, in which African ...

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

On Jan. 30, 1972, 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland by British Army paratroopers, which eventually became known as “Bloody Sunday.” After mounting ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Picking up from the account in Solidarity 731 of how the 1960s civil rights movement in Northern Ireland led to a bloody ...

Cheriss May for The New York Times President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey ...

The concurrent events have been met with mixed feelings by civil rights leaders, who broadly reviled Trump's rhetoric and stances on race and civil rights during his third presidential campaign. But ...

and Fort Worth’s “grandmother of Juneteenth” and East Texas native Opal Lee took advantage of the occasion to call on the incoming chief executive to live up to the civil rights leader’s ...

President Joe Biden granted a posthumous pardon to the late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey as well as four other justice advocates who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses. The White House ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill the late reverend’s dream of non-violent social revolution.

The Florida Civil Rights Museum held an inaugural fundraising gala Thursday night at Tallahassee State College’s Student Union Ballroom to honor 10 living legends and induct 22 leaders from the ...