John Dempster meets a woman not afraid to speak out for the causes she believes in and those she wants to help.

These women have largely been forgotten, until now. The lesser-known figures who powered the Civil Rights Movement are the subject of a brand-new opera, set to make its world premiere next week in ...

Harvard is due to hold its annual graduation ceremony Thursday as a federal judge considers the legality of punitive measures ...

Speaking at Harvard’s Tercentenary Theatre, Abdul-Jabbar reflected on his path into social justice activism as a young ...

The opera spotlights the women who challenged segregation in Montgomery, using classical music infused with sounds of gospel, ...

Maine artist Robert Shetterly said the late Albany civil rights leader epitomized his two-decade portrait project, “Americans ...

Racial tensions reached a boiling point over the summer, making it easy to harken back to the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and John Lewis among many others.

Historian Jeanne Theoharis joins us for an in-depth discussion about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, a major reexamination of his ...

By contrast, in pockets of Central America, aid cuts have undermined efforts to shore up democracy and civil society. In our report from El Salvador, we take the measure of the damage. How ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capi ...

As a part of the Multi-Generational Community Building Speaker Series, students interacted with Dr. Frank Smith and Macarthur Cotton, two civil rights activists who grew up in the South.