William L. Clay Sr., Missouri’s first Black congressman and noted civil rights leader died Wednesday at his daughter Vicki ...

Excerpts from Episode Six, “A More Perfect Union (1968 — 2013)” The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., selected segments. Segment 1: “Black Power ...

Historians and activists reflected on the historical arc of the civil rights movement. This discussion was part of a three-day conference called "The Future of the African American Past." It was ...

New sites in the African American Civil Rights Network offer 28 places to observe contributions during Black History Month and beyond.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

It is deeply concerning to witness the pervasive fear among African Americans and Latin Americans, particularly immigrants or ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, which was dedicated in 2011, is the first monument on the National Mall dedicated to an African American.It's at West Potomac ...

Similarly, most Americans think the Civil Rights Act has improved things for African-Americans in the U.S, including 84 percent of whites and 83 percent of blacks.

He publishes and lectures extensively about civil rights and is an adjunct professor at New York Law School. He graduated from Middlebury College and Harvard Law School. We are again in the season ...

Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian is a new Web-based project developed jointly by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Smithsonian’s ...

Bill Clay spent a lifetime being confrontational. The son of a welder, he became a leader of the street demonstrations that took on St. Louis power brokers and broke the ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture recently released a book called [We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity]. In conjunction, the museum ...