From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

AFPPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday offered most federal workers the option to leave their jobs in exchange for eight months severance, in his most radical move yet to drastically overhaul the ...

Under Doris Bland’s leadership, MAW reframed welfare as a right rather than a privilege, emphasizing the dignity and agency ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Those of us committed to continuing King’s dream should be outraged by the unjust economic proposals being advanced by the ...

At Syracuse University in 1965, Dr. King said "change is not self-operative; you cannot depend upon American institutions to function without prodding and pressuring." ...

The executive director of Equality California, an LGBTQ civil rights group, lauded Takano’s new role. “Rep. Takano has long ...

He helped found the Congress of Racial Equality and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ... the seminal event in American civil rights history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and ...

Dr. King's speeches, especially his iconic "I Have a Dream" address delivered during the 1963 March on Washington ... His advocacy for racial equality through peaceful protests and nonviolent ...

Philip Randolph, Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bayard Rustin organized the March on Washington for ... People (NAACP); James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); John Lewis, Student ...