While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the fight for civil rights.

The new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation, and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration.

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U ...

A White House official announced Trump’s executive order dismantling federal DEI programs, saying it honors "civil rights champions" who wanted all Americans to "be treated on the basis of their character,

President Joe Biden pardoned five people on Sunday, including the late civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, and commuted the sentences of two.

Explore the vital role Black churches play in the fight for civil rights and social justice, fostering resilience, collective identity, and community activism.

The Albany Movement was not a failure. It was a targeted hit by a president protecting the vested interests of a rabid racist and his own shot at a second term.

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

(AP Photo/Mike Roemer, File) NAACP President Derrick Johnson speaks to reporters outside the White House in Washington ... CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, speaks at a press conference to call to re-up broad support for a ...

Buried under layers of secrecy and red tape, the full findings related to the homicides of President John F. Kennedy, his brother and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.