Forty years have passed since Ulysses Johnson II started Longview’s annual Juneteenth parade. Each year, countless people ...

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

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

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.

In the City of Angels, the flames that define civil unrest are more often than not fueled by America’s original sin: our history of bias, discrimination, and racial injustice.

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 ...

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

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

Eared Books. How did a white guy from Iowa decide to write a book about a crucial period in the civil rights ...