Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.

The choir he created then still lifts their voices today, raising a joyful noise since 1959. Later renamed the Carlton Reese Memorial Unity Choir after a young Miles College student who composed the ...

More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society.“It’s ...

Hollywood’s Diversity Quotas for Oscar Nominees Draw Attention From Justice Department’s Civil Rights Unit The head of the civil rights division says the administration is ‘happy to receive leads ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in ...

The same civil rights and “anti-extremism” laws that were used to silence speech and ban guns are now being used to financially strangle political dissidents. So today, we break it down: - How the ...