Groundbreaking gay rights activist and Navy veteran Harvey Milk was in the news this week as the Navy vessel named in his honor made headlines as its pending renaming looms. "Chief Pentagon ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

The boy lifts his head higher and speaks with a clearer tone. “I’m Emmett.” ...

On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund created to address the ...

Khadim Thiam, 23, and nine other Black New York City college students unexpectedly went viral on TikTok when he posted a ...

Her book inspired survivors to tell their stories, women to organize rape crisis centers and helped lead to the passage of ...

One of Mississippi’s longest-serving current state senators, who published a memoir about how education helped him move from ...

Men, Women and Rape explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that ...

A photograph of three University of Mississippi students posing with guns beside a bullet-pocked and oft-vandalized historic marker to lynching victim Emmett Till has sparked a possible federal ...

“After you reach that 30-to-40-year mark, you lose hope.” Unbeknownst to Dale Gibbs, the Department of Justice opened an investigation into the killings under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights ...

Vanderpump Rules alum Lala Kent is getting real about dealing with “baby daddy” Randall Emmett. “We have been battling for many years and we finally got all of our ducks in a row and put the ...