The court's conservative majority could invalidate the section of the Voting Rights Act aimed at ensuring minority voters are ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

Andrew Young, the former U.N. ambassador, provides an insider’s view of the civil rights movement in a new documentary titled ...

The Supreme Court seemed likely to limit race-based electoral districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act after ...

Following a major renovation, National Center for Civil and Human Rights will include new east and west wings that house a café, several additional galleries — including one designed for children — ...

The world’s first statue of Civil Rights activist Ella Baker was unveiled on Wednesday at the Ohio State University at Newark ...

While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

Bull Connor, the commissioner of police in Birmingham, Alabama, had a message for the Ku Klux Klan: “By God, if you are going to do this thing, do it right.” That Sunday in May 1961, he promised the ...

President Trump’s ability to exert executive power during his second term without much pushback from Congress and the U.S.

Limelight Theatre debuts a reading of "When All The Saints Are Gathered" Oct. 11 and 12, highlighting St. Augustine's ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline. “Those of us who ...

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights (NCCHR) will reopen to the public on Nov. 8, following a $57.9 million ...