Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that ...

Atlanta's Jalyn Hall, an acting vet on the CW's "All American" and film "Till," has jumped into comedy in Tracey Morgan's NBC show 'The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins." ...

Black Panther Party, former members gathered at CSUN on Wednesday to reflect on the movement’s origins, survival programs, ...

An internal government database demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove ...

An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, ...

The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a “sacred" memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced. Two white men publicly confessed to ...

The exhibit focuses on the Black struggle for civil rights in Los Angeles through the work of Los Angeles-based photographers ...

In tragic irony, his life was cut short by a brutal display of racial violence. Emmett Till was a 14-year-old Black boy from ...

America has this vast potential to be better,’ Jackson said in an interview for ‘The Choice 2008,’ as he reflected on the civil rights movement and the road to Barack Obama’s candidacy.