This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court. The ...

Despite Brown v. Board of Education and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the U.S. has implemented policies that further segregate ...

Wright Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi to examine the place where Emmett Till was murdered for his new book ...

Before sunrise on school days, 7-year-old Laike Glesne used to lug his backpack from a Chicago public bus to a train and then ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that was all about preserving segregation.

A group of gun owners and Second Amendment supporters, who dubbed themselves The Civil Rights Coalition, are “very confident” ...

Opponents of a major new gun law say they have collected a bit less than half of the signatures they need by early next month ...

Hicks, Hammond’s first Black teacher and namesake of an elementary school, died on Tuesday, her family said. She was 87.

James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key ...

For example, under the Burger and Warren Courts in the mid to late 20th century, Americans saw a somewhat political or progressive court that carried out cases as big as Brown v. Board of Education, ...