Humanities Nebraska will present an exclusive virtual Chautauqua July 30-31 with themes relating the 1950s to today as part of prelude activities for “The Fifties in Focus” Nebraska Chautauqua that ...

The Civil Rights movement remains a defining chapter in American history, but interpretation evolves as new questions arise. Scholars use different structures to trace long-term struggles, regional ...

The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in the ...

In the mid-to-late 1950s, mobilizing a nonviolent protest was not quite as simple as propagating a hashtag. However, there were parallel methods of distribution of protest tactics, in this case ...

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

New Orleans is famous for its role as the birthplace of jazz, its lively French Quarter and the wild Mardi Gras carnival. The Mississippi river is never far away in "The Big Easy," and even when the ...

“Resemblance,” said Nevaeh Williams, fifth grader from Brandon Elementary, when asked why she drew a picture of Claudette Colvin, the American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. “She was ...

From left to right: Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr., Claudette Colvin and Vice President Kamala Harris. In celebration of Black history, we've rounded up quotes from inspirational icons like ...

OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. Editor’s note: The following article is an op ...

The Supreme Court’s elimination of affirmative action is undeniably a setback for racial justice—one that will lead to a substantial decline in Black and perhaps Hispanic enrollments in universities ...