As part of Trump’s onslaught on longstanding federal policies, his action affecting government contracting cancels an order ...

Standing on his balcony at The Lorraine Motel, King was shot and killed April 4, 1968. The assassination sparked another series of riots in the Avondale neighborhood, which resulted in the deaths of ...

Troops have been previously deployed in the U.S. by presidents, including George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy mostly avoided civil rights issues, afraid to alienate Southern ... Detroit had seemed immune to the race riots that overwhelmed dozens of American cities — after all, the local economy ...

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

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to ... believes that the issues of race and American democracy ...

President Joe Biden on Thursday awarded the second highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot who Donald Trump has ...