On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

Here’s what made these high school seniors sign up for an African American studies course—and what they’ve learned.

Joe Biden "accomplished something that President Obama didn't do," 91-year-old Julius Garvey told Newsweek about his father's ...

In a powerful response to the rising tide of racial violence targeting African American students, the Los Angeles ...

In his new book, Afro Sheen, the legendary founder of the Johnson Products Company chronicles his creation of a business empire that spanned the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights movement and the rise of ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but ... the fabric of American society.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Consortium is working to expand tourism to historic civil rights churches in Alabama that played a big role in the movement ...

people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Booker T. Washington High School was a school for African American students in ...

President Joe Biden has spent his final full day in office in South Carolina, where he urged Americans to “keep the faith in ...