For most of two centuries, the Black press has been pivotal in fighting white supremacism, articulating it without other ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson was a civil rights icon, Baptist minister and two-time Democratic presidential candidate.

A book by a University of Michigan law professor tackles the history around a Supreme Court case that limited the scope of ...

For decades, only White people were allowed to swim in the outdoor pool, until 1962, when four Black teenagers and two White friends jumped in.

Rock Hill resident Wali Cathcart’s family story stretches across generations of Black struggle in America, from slavery to integration. For Cathcart, many of those challenges and triumphs played out ...

His life traced the arc from the Civil Rights Movement to the challenges of a post–Civil Rights America still wrestling with ...

Equality was not accepted with regard to Black people as they would never be given the same opportunities as white people.

When Martin Luther King Jr. served as the pastor of an Alabama church during the latter half of the 1950s, he would get food ...

A meticulously researched true story honoring Norvel Lee, whose quiet courage challenged segregation and reshaped ...

Norman Francis, the first Black president of Xavier University of Louisiana, who played an important role in the civil rights ...

A former nurse turns truth-teller, exposing how generations were misled about slavery, segregation, and the Civil ...