Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The kickoff event for Jacksonville joining the U.S. Civil Rights Trail featured a marker standing a few feet from the pulpit where ...