While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions threaten racial progress .

WASHINGTON – While Donald Trump is being sworn in as president for the second time on Monday, civil rights activists plan to take a different oath just a few blocks from the White House ... the leader now of the MAGA movement." On that same day, Black ...

A day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Biden recognized how the black leaders he spoke to helped vault him to the Oval Office. "I owe you big,” he said.

For the third time in U.S. history, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day will both be held on the same day.

As Detroit civil rights leaders in the 1960s deliberated how to harness white support for the movement, they struck upon an innovation that would strengthen the fight for civil rights across the U ...

A White House official announced Trump’s executive order dismantling federal DEI programs, saying it honors "civil rights champions" who wanted all Americans to "be treated on the basis of their character,

Explore the vital role Black churches play in the fight for civil rights and social justice, fostering resilience, collective identity, and community activism.

The Albany Movement was not a failure. It was a targeted hit by a president protecting the vested interests of a rabid racist and his own shot at a second term.

President Donald Trump’s massive freeze on what appears to be trillions of dollars of federal aid is being challenged as possibly illegal, as state and federal lawmakers, governors, and the heads of nonprofit agencies that rely on federal funds,

Michelle Obama's absence from Jimmy Carter's funeral was likely a decision to not engage with Donald Trump. But why did Barack have to get so chummy with him?

because I think it ultimately was one of the signature protests of the entire civil rights movement.” In May 1961, Mr. Farmer led the first Freedom Ride, with 13 white and Black passengers ...

American consumers narrowly escaped dramatic increases in the cost of their morning coffee and Valentine’s Day flowers after President Donald Trump on Sunday announced, then quickly rescinded, a 25% tariff on all imports from Colombia — with plans for a whopping 50% tariff to be imposed one week later.