So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black ...

President Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to rule through systematic intimidation. It has deep roots in American ...

(AP) — Freedom Riders who were attacked in Alabama ... an exhibit recognizing Johnson’s landmarks rulings in the civil rights era was dedicated in the federal courthouse next door.

Ciara Smith made history when she became the first Black and youngest mayor of Anniston, Alabama, winning a four-way race to ...

The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement. Movement leaders at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian ...

Community members gathered at the Historic Douglass High School in Leesburg on Monday to raise the Juneteenth flag and ...

Some were active in civil rights groups like the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which initiated the Freedom Rides and was founded in 1942 on Mahatma Gandhi's principle of nonviolent protest.

AT 85, HIS PASSION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE HASN’T WANED in the 60 years since HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN THE FREEDOM RIDES ... LIKE MANY veterans of the CIVIL RIGHTS era, GLEASON CAN ...

Fraser, a professor emeritus of history and education at New York University and the author of the forthcoming book Religion and the American University, told me. Many of these chaplains are taking ...

James Forman Jr. doesn't need convincing that protests can change America. He just needs to look at a wall in his home.

Protesters clashed with law enforcement in Los Angeles on Sunday after Trump deployed National Guard troops over the ...