The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to be. They did not stop the demonstrations, and they did not prevent ...

Omaha residents honor the historic civil rights marches with a local march, emphasizing the importance of remembering and continuing the struggle for equal rights.

Hundreds gathered Wednesday at the Oregon State Capitol to protest recent actions taken by President Donald Trump. Follow ...

Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, who are tackling systemic racism.

By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of a movement ... National Civil Rights Day would also preserve the names of multiple unwitting catalysts for changes in police procedures.

Staff called the police, but since McNeil ... for nonviolent resistance and marked an early success for the civil rights movement. But it would take until 1964 for the Civil Rights Act to make ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67. Richards died Monday at home ...

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and ... The bus driver threatened to call the police and have her arrested, but she ...

The strategy, they say, is a response to what opponents felt worked — and didn’t — during the first Trump administration.

The U.S. Department of Justice has released the names of Antioch and Pittsburg police officers ... offenses including civil rights violations, falsifying records, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, ...