Several hundred gather on Juneteenth to dedicate “Towards Freedom,” a monumental depiction of Harriet and Lewis Hayden who ...

Some on the “Juneteenth Jubilee and Freedom Walk,” which retraced the steps of enslaved people seeking freedom, say they ...

San Diego’s Smooth Jazz Festival, a stand-up appearance by George Lopez, a summer choral concert and “Moulin Rouge! The ...

As we celebrate the extension of freedom and dignity to all Americans, remember the black leaders who carried that message into the pro-life movement.

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...

Humbles was barely 18 when she was selected to be on the first Freedom Ride bus, which a white mob firebombed in Alabama.

Among the less recognizable buildings slated for potential sale were several bearing the names of civil rights leaders, ...

Kenny Robinson, who heads an organization helping people reenter society after incarceration, says freedom means Black ...

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 ...

Some of the properties on the original list were high-profile government ... the civil rights movement. The Freedom Riders, a group consisting of both Black and white civil rights activists ...