BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — On Tuesday night, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute kicked off its 18th Legacy Youth Leadership ...

More than any other individual, Jackson embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement—its conversion from a mass ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail highlights local establishments that have a history. In Nashville, Black businesses like Swett’s, ...

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Attendees of Honoring Gloucester’s Pioneers of Progress at The Gloucester Institute on Saturday applauded as it was announced ...

The 2026 expansion adds sites across the South, including a Virginia courthouse tied to the court case "Loving v. Virginia" ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

Formed in the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers—a quartet within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—included ...