The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in Washington, D.C. Many U.S. cities played pivotal ...

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 on a syllabus for a course she's teaching this fall on ...

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn (WABC) -- In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, there is a snapshot of the civil rights movement that spread throughout New York City and beyond last summer in the days following the death of George Floyd. "Even in this day and age ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an unsavory phrase. Grunt work is more like it — efforts ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of the civil rights movement, when people in the 1950s and ...