In the early 60s stood a wooden house that served as a refuge during the highlight of the Civil Rights Movement in Canton.

In February 1965, the BBC reported from the funeral of the black nationalist leader in Harlem, New York, as thousands of ...

American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to ...

Explore the intersection of national and global Black liberation movements at the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series.

He was invited to a Civil Rights conference for young people in Texas by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE ... bus ticket that would take him from Washington D.C. through the Virginias ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

The Greater Washington Urban League hosts its annual Whitney M. Young Jr. Gala: Honoring Those with Courage Under Fire on March 28, celebrating social justice champions and changemakers.

Almost every Democrat in Congress supports the “Equality Act,” for example, which would erase protections based on biological sex from federal law. This is madness. Transgender adults ...

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the nation’s civil rights struggles. Hagerstown author Ed Maliskas said ...

She was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in an apartment that ... In high school, watching a televised sit-in for civil rights inspired him to join the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and ...

Cities with deep-rooted segregation, whether Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, have a long history of housing inequality.

"It is all of our responsibility to close the racial equality gap, the racial equity gap. We will all win when we look at our fellows and see them thriving." The Closers honoree Elise Smith ...