Dozens of NYU students and faculty convened last week for a hands-on lecture and discussion series about civil rights and ...

The JSRI opened“The Trail They Blazed,” an exhibition that documents the accounts of individuals in the Civil Rights Movement ...

A traveling exhibit celebrating civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. brings national history back to its local roots.

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death was announced Tuesday ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...

On Martin Luther King Jr., Day, the nation reflects on the Civil Rights Movement by invoking a familiar cast of heroes. We repeat the same names, the same photographs, the same speeches—often without ...

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Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become “radicalized.” In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Gay journalist Andrew Sullivan said Thursday that the LGBTQ movement is losing ground in America because it has become "radicalized." In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay ...