At 88, J.T. Johnson has only recently realized he has dyslexia, a common learning disability affecting up to one in five Americans. He has found assistance in Dysolve, a new computer program powered ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a ...

As I was setting out candidate signs at the library before election day voting, the person parking next to me rolled down his window and thanked me for putting up ...

We know the leaders of the movement, but how well do you know the story behind the 26-year-old martyr whose death sparked Bloody Sunday?

Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership.