The summer of 2020 was not the first time America saw protests and violence over the treatment of African Americans. Long ...

For the Bread & Roses Community Fund, protest is a key method of pushing for social change. Grantees of the $14 million fund have taken to the streets, held signs, chanted slogans, and rallied for ...

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(NNPA Newswire) – On the 116th anniversary of the Springfield Race Riot, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in Springfield, ...

Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to arrest ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden stumbled over his script Friday, saying at a civil rights event in the Oval Office that he served as vice president for 12 years ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Years before civil rights activist Cleveland Sellers got caught up in the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, he was on the path to the elite rank of Eagle Scout -- ...

For the past several months, Trump administration officials — along with conservative journalists and social media ...

Sixty years ago, a young Black man from South Los Angeles was pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer after another motorist reported the man driving recklessly. What started as a ...

After two decades of nonviolent Civil Rights activism, many African Americans put their faith in the militant Black Power movement. That was true in Augusta, Ga., too. Paine College Professor Emeritus ...

After a long career with high-profile cases that include the effort to free imprisoned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Outten & Golden's Lewis Steel, a prominent civil rights attorney, is hanging up ...