Americans are preparing for nationwide protests on July 17. These protests are to honor civil rights leader John Lewis. The ...

"Good Trouble Lives On" protests are scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the death of civil rights icon John Lewis.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Richard Hunt's vast body of work includes more than 160 public sculptures across the country. The Chicago native's work "Eagle Columns" can be seen in Jonquil Park at 1001 W.

April 4, 2017 - The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the Civil Rights Act prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees, after Kimberly Hively sues Ivy Tech Community College for ...

Prominent among the buzz generators this Broadway season is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose,” playing at the Hayes Theater.

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

At the feet of this Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery, Ala., are the names of lesser-known women from the Civil Rights Movement. The new opera “She Who Dared” tells their stories.

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

The department’s regional civil rights office that was handling her case then closed as part of President Donald Trump ’s effort to dismantle the agency. "They were shut down," Cupp said.

The Commercial Appeal Opinion Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion Lynn Norment Thu, March 27, 2025, 3:02 AM PDT 6 min read ...