Sunday’s rally at Decatur’s dReam Center Church featured speeches from local activists and leaders, including U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams.

On May 2, 1963, roughly 1,000 Birmingham students left their classrooms and took to the streets, taking on the fight for ...

The leader of the Department of Justice‘s Civil Rights Division issued a rallying cry this week for conservative lawyers to rethink their roles, not just within government but across the ...

Some 250 attorneys — or around 70% of the division's lawyers — have left or will have left ... which was created during the civil rights movement and the push to end racial segregation.

In this stirring episode of Complexified, we sit down with scholar, poet and community elder Rachel Harding to remember what the Civil Rights Movement ... everyone should have access to coverage ...

Johns County has reversed its decision to demolish the Old County Jail, a site significant to the Civil Rights movement ... is making sure that we have memory, we have identity, by preserving ...

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King ... and ordinary citizens should be rallying, just as they have for generations.

The creation of Medicaid isn’t typically considered a civil rights victory. But the idea of health care as a human right was very much a part of the Civil Rights Movement, as was the belief that ...

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