For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

The spiral group : defining African American art during the civil rights movement / Sharon Pruitt -- Jazz musicians in Europe : 1919 to 1945 / Larry Ross -- Black power, Chicago politics, and social ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1965. A housing developer and a local artist group in Arlington are partnering to commemorate the Civil Rights Movement with plans for a sculpture. A new Arlington ...

Doratha "Dodie" Smith-Simmons never had plans to become a civil rights activist. But at just 15 she was inspired to get involved by her older sister, who was among the students who integrated the ...

Introduction: "The national mental attitude" -- The birth of a cultural strategy -- Representing the new Negro -- Du Bois's crisis and the Black image on the page -- "A union of art and propaganda" -- ...

The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s ...

PITTSFORD, N.Y. – Nationally renowned artist Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. unveiled a new exhibit at Nazareth University on Thursday. The exhibit features a collection of artistic prints centered around major ...

Over a five-year span between 1865 and 1870, following the end of the Civil War, three constitutional amendments were ratified to end slavery (the 13 th), make formerly enslaved people U.S. citizens ...

Memphis has long had legendary women pushing the city forward. Among those is Ida B. Wells Barnett, the journalist, teacher and anti-lynching crusader whose life was threatened because of her views ...