A confidant and lawyer for Martin Luther King, he was an unseen hand behind major civil rights events, including the 1963 ...

Clarence Jones, who smuggled MLK’s letter out of Birmingham jail, speaks at the July 17 , 2025, rally in Palo Alto. Photo by Grace Gormley Clarence B. Jones, a civil rights icon and longtime Palo Alto ...

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to dismantle barriers to voting.

A landmark ruling against the state of Louisiana has upended one of the major sections of the Voting Rights Act ...

New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.

This originally published in the Black Joy newsletter. Sign up here to get encouraging content rooted in Black community and culture in your inbox every week. During a walk on a sunny Sunday morning, ...

As the nation prepares to mark its 250th anniversary, LULAC and the American GI Forum — both founded in Corpus Christi — ...

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

Alabama Republican Party - with an assist from SCOTUS - is happy to be the ‘ghost’ in the redistricting machine to suppress ...

John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral Thursday as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis' example and fight injustice. Three former U.S.

After Callais, the old civil rights politics is moot. And more recent strategies have limited reach. Here’s how we can build ...