In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the ...

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 ...

Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white ... riders to escape the inferno. Even then some were pummeled with baseball bats as they fled. A few hours later ...

The violent rebellion struck fear into whites throughout the South and led to the passage of a new law that required black churches to have white ministers ... the Freedom Riders movement and ...

For Latoya Green, freedom is the ability to express herself without repercussions. Kenny Robinson, who heads an organization ...

despite a Supreme Court ruling in 1960 that said segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Freedom Riders consisted of groups of mostly young Black and white students who rode buses ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

Two icons of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, the Montgomery Bus Station and the Freedom Rides Museum, had been on the federal government's list of buildings for sale. That's no longer the case.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Forty-seven years ago, 14 black students from Tennessee State University were beaten and arrested during the Freedom Rides that helped integrate the South. For their courage ...

The Trump Administration's reasons for resettling Afrikaners echo early U.S. debates about Haiti's independence.