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 ...

Three civil rights activists from Selma, Alabama, remember what they marched for in 1965, but they question how much the ...

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 ...

Americans talk about Civil Rights as a political movement. But as MLK well knew, it was more than that. It was a revival.

Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center and the youngest daughter of the civil rights leader, has some ideas.

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the ...

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 ...