When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

The Justice Department has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and indicated it could rethink numerous police reform ...

It’s a disquieting contrast for some civil rights advocates who wish to fulfill King’s dream of non-violent social revolution ...

The Justice Department froze civil-rights litigation to allow the incoming Trump administration to review the agencies ...

Garvey, one of the earliest internationally-known Black civil rights leaders, was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.

President Joe Biden pardoned five activists and public servants Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to Civil ...

On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...

A former Stanford University history professor who saw Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I Have a Dream" speech ...

A memo states that officials are implementing the freeze to be “consistent with the Department’s goal of ensuring that the ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

Civil rights advocates and lawmakers have long said that Mr. Garvey’s 1923 conviction for mail fraud was unjust, arguing that ...

On MLK Day, civil rights leaders are reflecting on the day’s ironic juxtaposition to the inauguration of Donald Trump.