JACKSON, Miss. — More than 60 years after a white supremacist assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers, his daughter still sees the same strain of political violence at work in American society.

To get the photographs, he jumped over church pews during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral, snuck into a cordoned off neighborhood to witness a Biloxi school integration and risked threats ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. César Chávez is woven throughout California’s social studies curriculum — as a labor leader, civil rights hero and ...

Under AB 2499, effective Jan. 1, 2025, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act provides workplace protections for employees and their family members who have survived qualifying acts of ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The Little Rock branch of the NAACP held a march today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement when a peaceful ...

My family was involved in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. I’ve always felt my generation’s contribution to the movement was its moral high-water mark, a legacy we baby boomers could be proud to leave ...

"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer ...

The moral dimension of political polarization in the US, where each side views the other as immoral, helps fuel attacks like ...

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Juan Williams is a journalist and political analyst for Fox News. This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be ...

Medgar Evers, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), poses for a photo, Aug. 9, 1955, in Jackson, Miss. When it comes to staying ...