The landmark 1965 law, a product of the civil rights movement, faces an unprecedented erosion that could reduce the political ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Angela Davis, left, autographs posters under the watchful eye of fellow activists and bodyguards in 1973. At right, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is arrested in Louisiana in 2016 while ...