Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...
Women from the Jewish Federation of San Diego visited with civil rights icons remembering the road to the Voting Rights Act ...
Cecile Richards died Monday after battling an aggressive form of brain cancer, her family said in a statement.
A self-described housewife turned feminist activist, she helped lead the women’s health movement in the 1970s.
The fat rights movement continued to grow. By the 1980s, enthusiasm for fat liberation was beginning to spread further across the globe. The London Fat Women’s Group was formed in the mid-80’s ...
Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...
Known as the birthplace of the civil rights movement, the city of Montgomery ... that chronicles the major events of the movement and records the names of 40 men, women and children who were killed ...
In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book ...
Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...
Cecile Richards, a leading figure in the fight for women's reproductive rights and other progressive causes, died on Monday ...
On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...