In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

Evanston residents celebrated women’s role in the Civil Rights Movement at an event honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

Leaders, pastors and community members gathered to honor heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in celebration of Dr. Martin ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

Organizations across the region commemorated the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. over the weekend, with one event in ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy ...

The first civil rights movement was about getting Black people out of the back of ... Vice President Kamala Harris, was a woman. Trump played into sexist stereotypes by calling her “dumb ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

an unarmed Black woman who had called 911 because she had thought a prowler was outside her home. Still, as part of an agreement that ended the department’s civil rights investigation into the ...

Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act ...

Carter worked to implement civil rights-era policies and laws and made a record number of Black appointments to his administration, including the first Black woman to serve on a presidential ...