AFRICAN AMERICAN REPORTS

The National Civil Rights Museum is celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 as a Community Day with free museum admission and museum...

This “landmark” dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King transforms our understanding of the twentieth century’s most iconic Af...

The Rev. Charles Melvin Sherrod, whose grassroots organizing of unregistered black voters sent shock waves through the segregated South an...

Civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in North Carolina after they launched the...

Civil rights pioneer Jo Ann Robinson, who played an instrumental role in the historic 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott in the mid-1950s, h...

The juvenile court records of Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer who refused in 1955 to give up her seat to a White person on an Ala...

Peacock announced Wednesday that production has begun on "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a full length documentary abo...

Civil rights activist Lucille Times has died from complications from COVID-19 at the age of 100. She is remembered for starting a boycott ...

Gloria Richardson, an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer whose determination not to back down while protesting racial ine...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt has announced the establishment of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument ...

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who was often called the “dean” of the America's civil rights movement, died Friday at the age of 98. In 1...

Most people think of Rosa Parks as the first person to refuse to give up their seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. There were actually ...

To honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s death, President Obama and Congressman John Lewis participated in a My Brother’...

Former, and the last real President of the United States Barack Obama released the following statement via Twitter celebrating the Marti...

On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech will be replayed and quoted often. It should be a...

The life story of Coretta Scott King―wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social ...

Congressman John Lewis can now add another accolade to his long and distinguished civil rights/political career. He has won a National B...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s heirs have agreed to end their legal fight over who owns the slain civil rights leader's 1964 Nobel Pea...

The Bible that Martin Luther King Jr. carried during the civil rights movement in the 1960s belongs to his estate which voted in 2014 to...

The site of an important civil rights sit-in in 1958 in Wichita will be getting a memorial for the first time. Young black protester...