A few years after Daytona was founded, the city's earliest Black settlers were establishing their own neighborhood between ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, is a major reexamination of the civil rights leader that offers a different picture of both King’s own experiences of police brutality and ...

The arrests took place in 1964 after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., himself jailed, sought their help amid civil rights ...

From generation to generation, it seems, Los Angeles burns.

Federal troops in American cities have historical precedent, from President George H.W. Bush's response to Rodney King riots ...

Editorial written by The Philadelphia Inquirer Board. From generation to generation, it seems, Los Angeles burns. During World War II, white Angelenos attacked Mexican and Filipino Americans who wore ...

Kevin Sack, formerly a correspondent for The New York Times, is the author of “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, ...

Rev. Solomon W. Kinloch Jr.’s rise in the current Detroit mayoral race has thrust the Black church to the front and center of ...

When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. took to the podium to speak ... American schools with creating a new landscape free of segregation: Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the ...

So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black folks throughout history. At age 18, Rev. Bruce Klunder knew he had to join the ...

For 100 years, the Hotel Albert stood sentry in downtown Selma, Ala. Read about the hotel's fascinating history.