From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

When we learn about the Civil Rights movement in school, Phoenix is not often the setting. But, there is a rich Black history ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

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

Originally published in Synapse on January 22, 2009.

The rally at the historic Black church was intended in part to celebrate the civil rights legend and unite to protect those rights under the Trump administration. At the same time across town at ...

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 ...

ALBANY, Ga., Jan. 19.--From passengers who came up on the Brunswick and Western train to-day the following facts were learned about the riot at Ty Ty: A bailiff had a warrant for a negro ...

Rustin is credited as the primary architect of a number of significant, effective methods and ideas used in the movement. “Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the mass struggles for ...