Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Discover the significant role of A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman porters in fighting economic discrimination. Learn about their impact on the labor movement and civil rights.

White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that ...

Cunningham, an associate professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, recently published a book ...

American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course, is good advice for any biographer, and I ...

Members of a Senate committee grilled Labor Secretary-designate Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Wednesday about her past support of ...

Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the death of Malcolm X, a prominent Black American Muslim civil rights activist.

Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

The lead song of the Civil Rights Movement soundtrack, “We Shall Overcome,” was adapted from the hymn “I’ll Overcome Some Day,” written in 1901 by Rev. Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, who, ...

Immigrants have been a part of the foundation of what would be New York City, according to the state’s New York ...