The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed decades of law that permitted citizens to discriminate against others just because of ...

To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

So respected was this civil rights pioneer that, at his funeral in 1961, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ...

Sarah Rountree is the last surviving member of the Committee for Civil Liberties.

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ‒ A coalition of civil rights leaders kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American ...

Arkansas is running out of opportunities to properly honor that history instead of engaging in fights over it. Many of the ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...