Related stories Related sites The civil rights struggle in modern times. 1954 -- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown ...

Even at a young age, Lewis Steel was aware of the racial and socioeconomic gulfs that segregated people, and this reflected to him that "something was seriously wrong in society." After a long career ...

Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to arrest ...

(NNPA Newswire) – On the 116th anniversary of the Springfield Race Riot, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Springfield 1908 Race Riot National Monument in Springfield, ...

WASHINGTON — President Biden stumbled over his script Friday, saying at a civil rights event in the Oval Office that he served as vice president for 12 years ...

Presidents have invoked this throughout history -- but normally not against the wishes of local leaders except to enforce federal law.

The images emerging from Los Angeles this week tell two very different stories. In one version, federal troops are maintaining law and order in response to dangerous disruptions in immigration ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Years before civil rights activist Cleveland Sellers got caught up in the deadly 1968 protest known as the Orangeburg Massacre, he was on the path to the elite rank of Eagle Scout -- ...

After a long career with high-profile cases that include the effort to free imprisoned boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Outten & Golden's Lewis Steel, a prominent civil rights attorney, is hanging up ...