on “Bloody Sunday,” John Lewis and dozens of others were beaten while crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge. After an aborted second attempt, thousands had started out from Selma on March 21.

Sixty years ago today the Selma ... events of March 7 when a sheriff’s posse, along with Alabama state troopers, attacked and clubbed a group of voting rights marchers led by John Lewis ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march—one of the most defining moments in the U.S. civil rights movement (writes the U.S author and historian, Forest Issac Jones).

To look at this photo is to see what will come next. Not just over the course of a month in 1965, but into the future that is now.

March 30, to be exact when a group of anti-segregation demonstrators led by Civil Rights activist John Lewis staged a "Freedom March" through the streets of downtown Nashville protesting the ...

It’s been 250 years since that fateful night. Now, a different warning echoes – the specter of a new authoritarianism, writes Mike Dean.

After last week’s essay about this disease condition, it has become necessary to help readers understand the peculiar nature of the organ.

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...

On Tuesday at 7:19 p.m., Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s longstanding record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate, which ...