Baker’s nickname was Fundi, a Swahili word for a person who passes skills from one generation to another. Educating young ...

Prominent among the buzz generators this Broadway season is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Purpose,” playing at the Hayes Theater.

To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...

For progressives, the movement represents an erosion of the role of public schools in teaching their children common values ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal and discriminatory — presumably against white people. He signed his own ...

In a New York Times essay, Andrew Sullivan examined how the gay rights movement transformed from civil rights victories to ...

2. Rosa Parks Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

The Commercial Appeal Opinion Civil Rights Movement Memphis women, Smith, Walk and Crenshaw, made a difference | Opinion Lynn Norment Thu, March 27, 2025, 3:02 AM PDT 6 min read ...

The anniversary weekend in Montgomery, a city which played a critical role in the Civil Rights Movement, includes a reception honoring current and past social justice leaders. Those expected to ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...

The civil rights movement shows us that successful movements can strategically embrace rather than reject their radical wing. As a form of civil disobedience, sit-ins were initially considered ...